Bilateral Aid Agreements 44. Mr. Chapman asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the value of aid given by the United Kingdom in the last financial year under bilateral agreements; and how many separate arrangements and different countries were involved. Mr. Neil Marten In 1981, 132 countries received £673 million in bilateral aid, £374 million of this was provided under a total of 173 capital aid agreements. The remainder consisted of other forms of capital aid, together with technical cooperation.