Development Assistance

Mr. Lester
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the amounts of official development assistance allocated as bilateral aid in the sectors of primary health, primary education, rural water supply and family planning in the years 1974 to the present, including financial aid and technical co-operation.

Mrs. Chalker
Figures prior to 1980 are not available. Bilateral aid expenditure for the period 1980 to 1990 was as follows: --
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Note: Figures include Project Aid provided by the Commonwealth Development Corporation.