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Arms Sales

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what representations her Department made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer concerning the decision to ban Export Credits Guarantee Department cover for arms sales to the world's 62 poorest countries; [109196]

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(2) what recent discussions she had with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office regarding the decision to ban 62 of the world's poorest countries from receiving Export Credits Guarantee Department cover for arms sales. [109197]

Clare Short: As part of the on-going Review of the Export Credits Guarantee Department's Mission and Status, the scope of the productive expenditure initiative is being considered, and my Department is contributing actively to that work. A copy of our Department's position paper on the role of ECGD, which was submitted to the Review in December 1999, has been placed in the Library of the House, with a copy of the supporting consultancy study.

Birth Control Projects

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list (a) the number and (b) aggregate costs of each birth control project funded by her Department. [109202]

Clare Short: In line with the principles agreed at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, we support programmes to improve the full breadth of reproductive health for people. This includes enabling people to choose whether and when to have children through voluntary family planning. The following table lists currently active projects and programmes which, wholly or in part, provide for family planning services or commodities.

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			£000
Country/project title	Start date	Total commitment	Expenditure in 1999/2000
Bangladesh
Marie Stopes Clinic Society Reproductive Health Care	September 1995	4,063	577
Fourth Population and Health: NGO Support Project	February 1997	7,300	24
Bangladesh Rural Advisory Committee (BRAC) Reproductive Health and Disease Control Project	March 1997	4,200	854
Support for Health and population for the Less Advanced (SHAPLA)	March 1999	25,000	2,500
Social Marketing of Contraceptives	September 1998	1,970	2
Bolivia
Esperanza: adolescent pregnancy prevention project	July 1996	108	15
Adolescent Reproductive health project	September 1996	303	49
Pilot Plan Vida--municipal level reproductive health services	October 1997	1,023	146
Burkina Faso
Improving Reproductive Health in Rural Areas	May 1998	231	25
Cambodia
Social Marketing of Contraceptives	January 1995	2,050	4
Social Marketing of Contraceptives II	November 1999	60	1
Colombia
Adolescent Reproductive Health	May 1998	168	26
Ethiopia
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Skills Training For Youth	April 1996	201	45
Gambia, The
Health Education Family Spacing project	April 1995	54	8
Ghana
Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion Services For Youth	April 1997	171	27
Health Sector Investment(1)	August 1997	28,627	3,432
Adolescent Reproductive Health Project	July 1999	130	20
Guatemala
Strengthening of Family Planning Services in Mayan Communities	April 1995	479	75
India
Orissa Health and Family Welfare Project Phase II	March 1991	24,150	1
Reproductive Health Education Training Centre	October 1994	357	36
Promotion of Family Planning Through Peoples Participation	April 1995	436	76
Improving Sexual Health Among Lorry Drivers	April 1995	567	40
West Bengal Sexual Health	December 1995	3,962	314
Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health Initiative	April 1996	125	27
Community Based Social Marketing	May 1996	439	2
West Bengal Reproductive Health	November 1996	1,748	161
Reproductive Health Orissa	January 1997	4,998	404
Orissa: Social marketing Population Services International (PSI)	March 1997	1,690	104
Kenya
Kenya Family Health Project	January 1993	11,645	793
Kibwezi Rural Health Scheme Women's Productive and Reproductive Health	April 1995	348	47
Income Generating Activities as an Entry Point for Women's Health	April 1995	191	20
Expanding Family Planning Service Delivery Through Market Day Midwives	September 1996	399	73
Family Planning Interim Support	November 1996	3,503	26
Social Marketing of condoms--Population Services International	May 1998	1,367	8
Malawi
Contraceptive Supply Reproductive Health	May 1993	709	1
Reproductive Health Project	September 1994	11,012	2,331
Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme (SERPS) (FA)	November 1999	31,373	0
SERPS Technical Assistance	February 1999	3,000	92
Mozambique
Maternal and Child Health And Reproductive Health	April 1997	495	85
Reproductive Health	April 1999	405	79
Social Marketing of condoms--Population Services International	November 1999	1,380	1
Myanmar
Mandalay Community Health and Community Based Rehabilitation Project	April 1996	55	6
Nepal
Nepal Reproductive Health Programme	August 1997	2,383	630
Nepal Health and Population Programme	August 1999	500	103
Niger
Zinder Reproductive Health	April 1997	500	96
Nigeria
Population and Reproduction Health Work Programme 1995-98	April 1995	1,187	87
Promoting Reproductive Health	October 1995	316	9
Integrated Modern Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services	April 1997	245	26
Community Groups Working in Sexual Health	May 1998	338	58
Social Marketing of Contraceptives	October 1998	14,000	2,572
Pakistan
World Bank Family Health Project	August 1993	14	130
Family Planning community based Information Education and Communication	April 1994	433	31
Community Based Family Planning Project	August 1994	1,380	265
Family Planning Association and Pakistan Audio Visual Vans	October 1994	210	2
Family Planning and Mother and Reproductive Health Project--Phase 2	April 1995	324	33
Family Planning Association of Pakistan Doorsteps Project	September 1995	517	44
Private Sector Population Project	November 1995	7,040	1,341
World Bank 2nd Family Health Project (Punjab/Baluchistan)	February 1997	8,500	1,468
Social Marketing of Condoms	July 1999	2,386	1,658
Peru
Multi-Sectoral Population Programme	April 1996	2,016	637
CARE: Consolidation of Multi-sectoral Population Programme	April 1997	160	22
Philippines
Static And Mobile Outreach services	April 1995	530	57
Russian Federation
Samara Reproductive Health Service Delivery	September 1997	186	72
South Africa
Condom Social Marketing For HIV/AIDS Prevention	June 1995	3,770	690
Johannesburg Reproductive Health	August 1995	830	148
Community Based RH services for young people	February 1996	279	39
Southern Africa
Labour Support	March 1999	58	36
Sri Lanka
Maternal and Child Health and Reproductive Health	October 1995	1,129	236
Sudan
Reproductive health/family planning	May 1998	500	85
Tanzania
Family Planning Services and Supply	August 1996	3,692	89
Family Planning Services and Supply 2	August 1996	421	89
Ininga Youth Centre Project	April 1997	178	16
Health Sector Development(1)	July 1999	45,000	1,100
Uganda
Uganda Family Health Project	October 1994	3,369	610
Family Planning Supply	December 1994	1,953	178
Kumi District Health Project	January 1996	1,474	429
Kumi District Health Project	February 1997	2,484	315
Family Health Project	February 1997	6,546	1,204
Reproductive Health Project	April 1997	475	94
Empowering Girls and Young Women Family Life Education Awareness	April 1997	132	24
Kawempe Primary Health Care Project	August 1997	587	74
Condom supply project	February 1998	234	3
Family Health Project	December 1998	45	19
Expansion Of Family Planning Reproductive Health Care	April 1999	474	82
Zambia
Zambia--Health and Population Sector Aid Package (ZHPSA)(1)	April 1994	20,419	1,607
Zambia Health SWAP(1)	January 1998	100	1
Anti Aids Project	October 1998	26	12
Zimbabwe
Family Planning Project	April 1995	230	31
Social Marketing of Contraceptives	October 1996	1,811	291
Meeting Healthcare Needs of Undeserved Populations	October 1998	302	35
Adolescent Reproductive Health	June 1999	500	371
Non-country specific
Promotion of Safe Motherhood--Population Services International	December 1997	2,500	1,000
Evaluation of community participation approaches	August 1999	40	40
UNFPA Core Grant 1999	--	Annual	15,000
IPPF Core Grant 1999	--	Annual	5,500
Total		323,215	51,346

(1) Health sector-wide support programmes. These may include support for family planning

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