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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Low-income Countries

Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development for each low-income country, what proportion of total bilateral aid it received in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 1999-2000; and what total amount of bilateral aid it received in 1996-97. [130862]

Clare Short: Data for 1999-2000 are not yet available. The tables show both Department for International Development bilateral expenditure and UK Gross Public Expenditure on Aid (GPEX) for 1996-97 and 1998-99, the latest year for which figures are available. Low-income countries are defined as those with a 1995 GNP per capita of less than $766. The total figures include bilateral expenditure which cannot be attributed to individual countries, including for instance block grants and regional allocations.

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Bilateral aid to low-income countries 1996-97

	DFID		GPEX
	£000	%	£000	%
Total all countries	1,074,762	--	1,281,794	--
	Of which low-income group countries
Afghanistan	8,544	0.79	9,444	0.74
Albania	1,038	1.10	1,038	0.08
Angola	9,787	0.91	9,787	0.76
Armenia	1,122	0.10	1,122	0.09
Azerbaijan	1,093	0.10	1,093	0.09
Bangladesh	42,402	3.95	42,405	3.31
Benin	29	0.00	29	0.00
Bhutan	20	0.00	20	0.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	727	0.07	752	0.06
Burkina Faso	204	0.02	204	0.02
Burma	314	0.03	319	0.02
Burundi	1,560	0.15	1,560	0.12
Cambodia	5,552	0.52	5,552	0.43
Cameroon	2,205	0.21	2,205	0.17
Central African Republic	21	0.00	26	0.00
Chad	142	0.01	142	0.01
China	31,701	2.95	31,701	2.47
Comoros	17	0.00	17	0.00
Congo	--	--	990	0.08
Democratic Republic of the Congo	107	0.01	1,213	0.09
Cote d'Ivoire	633	0.06	4,915	0.38
Equatorial Guinea	--	--	--	--
Eritrea	1,210	0.11	1,210	0.09
Ethiopia	8,078	0.75	8,518	0.66
Gambia	1,844	0.17	1,844	0.14
Georgia	1,851	0.17	1,851	0.14
Ghana	25,643	2.39	28,339	2.21
Guinea	178	0.02	412	0.03
Guinea-Bissau	6	0.00	6	0.00
Guyana	5,382	0.50	7,036	0.55
Haiti	10	0.00	10	0.00
Honduras	1,077	0.10	7,395	0.58
India	92,393	8.60	112,140	8.75
Kenya	26,481	2.46	26,491	2.07
Kyrgyzstan	923	0.09	935	0.07
Laos	729	0.07	729	0.06
Liberia	3,006	0.28	3,006	0.23
Madagascar	399	0.04	601	0.05
Malawi	33,555	3.12	44,877	3.50
Mali	523	0.05	8,656	0.68
Mauritania	18	0.00	293	0.02
Mongolia	378	0.04	378	0.03
Mozambique	22,035	2.05	26,447	2.06
Nepal	15,371	1.43	15,373	1.20
Nicaragua	1,193	0.11	1,193	0.09
Niger	112	0.01	467	0.04
Nigeria	7,642	0.71	7,642	0.60
Pakistan	27,517	2.56	59,367	4.63
Rwanda	9,676	0.90	9,676	0.75
Sao Tome and Principe	12	0.00	12	0.00
Senegal	577	0.05	764	0.06
Sierra Leone	10,619	0.99	10,841	0.85
Somalia	1,322	0.12	1,322	0.10
Sri Lanka	7,364	0.69	19,937	1.56
Sudan	4,534	0.42	4,534	0.35
Tajikistan	4,301	0.40	4,301	0.34
Tanzania	48,208	4.49	56,432	4.40
Togo	311	0.03	617	0.05
Tuvalu	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Uganda	42,976	4.00	49,095	3.83
Vietnam	5,606	0.52	5,606	0.44
Yemen	1,975	0.18	2,004	0.16
Zambia	17,499	1.63	40,629	3.17
Zimbabwe	11,126	1.04	21,103	1.65
Total to low-income group of countries	550,878	51	706,623	55

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1998-99

	DFID		GPEX
	£000	%	£000	%
Total all countries	1,175,605	--	1,386,083	--
	Of which low-income group countries
Afghanistan	4,123	0.35	4,123	0.30
Albania	643	0.05	643	0.05
Angola	4,550	0.39	4,550	0.33
Armenia	551	0.05	551	0.04
Azerbaijan	498	0.04	498	0.04
Bangladesh	69,918	5.95	69,918	5.04
Benin	88	0.01	88	0.01
Bhutan	14	0.00	14	0.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,599	0.22	2,599	0.19
Burkina Faso	318	0.03	318	0.02
Burma	795	0.07	795	0.06
Burundi	324	0.03	324	0.02
Cambodia	5,625	0.48	5,625	0.41
Cameroon	1,888	0.16	3,588	0.26
Central African Republic	--	--	5	0.00
Chad	--	--	--	--
China	39,540	3.36	39,541	2.85
Comoros	18	0.00	18	0.00
Congo	6	0.00	3,216	0.23
Democratic Republic of the Congo	552	0.05	1,546	0.11
Cote d'Ivoire	623	0.05	13,453	0.97
Equatorial Guinea	0	0.00	0	0.00
Eritrea	868	0.07	868	0.06
Ethiopia	8,850	0.75	9,910	0.71
Gambia	976	0.08	979	0.07
Georgia	1,265	0.11	1,265	0.09
Ghana	54,365	4.62	63,844	4,61
Guinea	424	0.04	603	0.04
Guinea-Bissau	8	0.00	8	0.00
Guyana	5,777	0.49	22,893	1.65
Haiti	59	0.01	59	0.00
Honduras	2,611	0.22	3,382	0.24
India	92,275	7.85	113,865	8.21
Kenya	34,023	2.89	43,011	3.10
Kyrgyzstan	442	0.04	458	0.03
Laos	546	0.05	546	0.04
Liberia	776	0.07	776	0.06
Madagascar	410	0.03	612	0.04
Malawi	47,265	4.02	52,395	3.78
Mali	331	0.03	831	0.06
Mauritania	2	0.00	429	0.03
Mongolia	470	0.04	477	0.03
Mozambique	26,401	2.25	29,158	2.10
Nepal	17,209	1.46	17,209	1.24
Nicaragua	1,996	0.17	1,996	0.14
Niger	172	0.01	870	0.06
Nigeria	11,053	0.94	11,053	0.80
Pakistan	25,180	2.14	28,608	2.06
Rwanda	13,776	1.17	13,776	0.99
Sao Tome and Principe	--	--	--	--
Senegal	454	0.04	616	0.04
Sierra Leone	9,036	0.77	9,241	0.67
Somalia	1,617	0.14	1,617	0.12
Sri Lanka	7,831	0.67	7,831	0.56
Sudan	24,416	2.08	24,416	1.76
Tajikistan	732	0.06	1,440	0.10
Tanzania	51,433	4.38	78,924	5.69
Togo	124	0.01	1,204	0.09
Tuvalu	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Uganda	52,621	4.48	64,307	4.64
Vietnam	4,699	0.40	4,699	0.34
Yemen	1,048	0.09	1,048	0.08
Zambia	14,986	1.27	33,134	2.39
Zimbabwe	16,597	1.41	29,391	2.12
Total to low-income group of countries	665,797	57	829,162	60

Notes:

1. Countries are classified using 1995 GNP per capita estimates

2. Data for Tuvalu are not available as bilateral assistance to the Pacific is provided under a single regional programme.

3. 1998-99 figures are the latest available data.

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Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what definition her Department uses for low-income countries in relation to its performance target set out in its Public Service Agreement. [130863]

Clare Short: The definition of low-income countries, used in the Public Service Agreement, is those with a GNP per capita in 1995 of less than US$766. There are 64 such countries and they are listed on pages 164-166 of the latest (1999) edition of "Statistics On International Development" (a copy of which is in the House Library). The definition was developed by the World bank.

Aid Indicators

Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the level of each of the indicators was in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 1999-2000 for each of the targets listed in her Department's Public Service Agreement for the 30 largest recipients of British aid; and what action is being taken by her Department to increase progress towards achievement of the targets for each of the targets. [130962]

Clare Short: The level of each of the Public Service Agreement (PSA) indicators for the baseline year and for 1999-2000 are set out in Box g (items 1 to 3) of the Department for International Development's 2000 Departmental Report. Copies of the Departmental Report and the latest public drafts of the Target Strategy Papers which set out the action necessary to achieve the International Development Targets have been deposited in the House Library. The final Target Strategy Papers will be published over the next few months. A revised PSA for DFID, covering the years 2001-04 will be published shortly as Command Paper 4808.

Nolan Rules

Mr. Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list each group that is responsible to her Department, with significant and plural membership from outside the Civil Service, and to which the Nolan rules on non-departmental public bodies do not apply; and for each such group, if it (a) is a company limited by guarantee, (b) is a charity, (c) has no formal legal basis and (d) has some other legal basis, giving details. [131174]

Clare Short: The only body which meets these criteria is CDC Group plc. It is not a company limited by guarantee, nor is it a charity. CDC Group plc has a formal legal basis and was formerly a statutory corporation. On 8 December 1999 CDC was registered as a plc in accordance with, and by virtue of, the CDC Act 1999. CDC is presently wholly owned by Government. The Secretary of State for International Development holds the shares, less one which is held by the Treasury Solicitor. It is to these two members that CDC Group plc is responsible.

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