To ask the Secretary of State for International Development to which countries (a) the European Commission and (b) his Department has committed funds under European Development Fund 10. (125536)

The 10^th European Development Fund (EDF10) will provide €22.7 billion (£15.3 billion) for development, economic and trade co-operation for the period 2008 to 2013 to 79 countries in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific. The UK contribution to EDF10 will be 14.82 per cent. EDF10 will become operational from 1 January 2008.

Countries eligible for EDF10 funding are as follows.

Africa

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Congo (Brazzaville)

Congo (Kinshasa)

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

Sudan

Swaziland

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guyana

Haiti

Jamaica

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

Pacific

Cook Islands

Federated States of Micronesia

Fiji

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Nauru

Niue

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Timor-Leste

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Overseas Countries and Territories

Anguilla

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

South Georgia

South Sandwich Islands

Montserrat

Pitcairn

Saint Helena and dependencies

British Antarctic Territories

British Indian Ocean Territories

Turks and Caicos Islands

British Virgin Islands

Mayotte

New Caledonia

French Polynesia

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Southern and Antarctic Territories

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Aruba

Dutch Antilles (Curasao, Bonaire, Saint Maarten, Saint Eustache and Saba)

Greenland