Overseas Aid Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will commission an independent survey on the effectiveness of the United Kingdom aid programme. Mrs. Chalker We regularly commission independent outside evaluators to work alongside our own evaluation department on studying the effectiveness of particular aspects of the aid programme. The results of around 50 studies completed over the last three years are available.The development assistance committee—DAC—of the OECD also reviews the aid programmes of its members on a regular basis. A review of the United Kingdom aid programme is currently under way and the conclusions of the DAC will be announced in April. Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was United Kingdom per capita aid in each of the last five years to (a) Sudan, (b) Ethiopia, (c) Angola, (d) Mozambique and (e) Liberia. Mrs. Chalker The information is as follows: ------------ | | ------------ |Angola | ------------ |Ethiopia | ------------ |Liberia | ------------ |Mozambique| ------------ |Sudan | ------------ Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total of aid from the United Kingdom since 1987 to (a) each Latin American nation and (b) each (i) north, (ii) west, (iii) southern, (iv) central and (v) eastern African nation. Mrs. Chalker Following are the available figures: ----------------------- |Country | ----------------------- |AFRICA: North || ----------------------- |Algeria | ----------------------- |Egypt | ----------------------- |Morocco | ----------------------- |Tunisia | ----------------------- |AFRICA: Sub-Saharan || ----------------------- |Angola | ----------------------- |Benin | ----------------------- |Botswana | ----------------------- |Burkina Faso | ----------------------- |Burundi | ----------------------- |Cameroon | ----------------------- |Cape Verde Islands | ----------------------- |C.A.R. | ----------------------- |Chad | ----------------------- |Comoros | ----------------------- |Congo | ----------------------- |Djibouti | ----------------------- |Equatorial Guinea | ----------------------- |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 | -------------------- |Zaire | -------------------- |Zambia | -------------------- |Zimbabwe | -------------------- |AMERICA: Central || -------------------- |Costa Rica | -------------------- |Cuba | -------------------- |Dominican Republic| -------------------- |E1 Salvador | -------------------- |Guatemala | -------------------- |Haiti | -------------------- |Honduras | -------------------- |Mexico | -------------------- |Nicaragua | -------------------- |Panama | -------------------- |AMERICA: South || -------------------- |Bolivia | -------------------- |Brazil | -------------------- |Chile | -------------------- |Colombia | -------------------- |Ecuador | -------------------- |Paraguay | -------------------- |Peru | -------------------- |Surinam | -------------------- |Uruguay | -------------------- |Venezuela | -------------------- Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing the level of United Kingdom bilateral aid since 1987 to the 20 poorest nations as measured by GDP: and what information he has as to the percentage this aid represents of the total aid received by that nation in each case. Mrs. Chalker The information for 1987 and 1988 is as follows: --------------- | | --------------- |Cambodia | --------------- |Afghanistan | --------------- |Vietnam | --------------- |Mozambique | --------------- |Ethiopia | --------------- |Bhutan | --------------- |Guinea·Bissau| --------------- |Tanzania | --------------- |Chad | --------------- |Malawi | --------------- |Bangladesh | --------------- |Zaire | --------------- |Nepal | --------------- |Somalia | --------------- |Madagascar | --------------- |Laos | --------------- |Burma | --------------- |Gambia | --------------- |Mali | --------------- |Burundi | --------------- |Total | --------------- Notes: (1) These figures are for net official development assistance (oda). (2) The figures in the left-hand column are for United Kingdom bilateral aid only, and thus do not include the United Kingdom share of multilateral aid to these countries, which is included in the total oda receipts figure which forms the basis of the right-hand column. (3) The figures include official development assistance recorded in 1987 and 1988: figures for other donors for 1989 are not yet available in this form. Sources: British Aid Statistics: United Kingdom aid. OECD: Total oda receipts. Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total level of aid, broken down by continent, formally requested of the United Kingdom over the past 12 months; and how much of this total was agreed to. Mrs. Chalker Formal requests for specified amounts of British aid are rarely received. We are in regular consultation with the main recipients of bilateral aid about the amounts of British aid that might be made available and the purposes for which it might be used. Mr. Tom Clarke To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries in Asia and the middle east were beneficiaries of funds from the aid and trade provision in the last year. Mrs. Chalker In 1990, spending under the aid and trade provision took place in respect of projects in the following countries: Asia BurmaChinaIndiaIndonesiaMalaysiaPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaThailand Middle East JordanYemen Arab Republic