Malawi

Mr. Mullin
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what aid his Department supplied to the Government of Malawi since 1979.

Mr. Archie Hamilton
The Minister of Defence does not provide aid as such. However, in recent years the British Government, through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, have given limited assistance to the Malawian army in the form of military training and gifts of non-lethal defence equipment. It is not our practice to disclose the cost of such assistance to individual countries.