---

14 May 2008 : Column 1657W—continued

Data provided by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) are provided by HPA region, comprising nine regional offices covering the whole of England which correspond to the Government offices of the regions (this equates to SHA in all regions apart from the South East, which includes South Central and South East Coast SHAs).

Information on the proportion of multi-drug resistant TB cases in England from 1998 to 2006 reported to have had previous tuberculosis treatment is provided in the following table. Due to the small numbers and the potential for deductive disclosure, this information has been provided for England as a whole in each year. Among those cases reported to have previously been treated, it is not possible to definitively attribute drug resistance to previously unsuccessful TB treatment as some of these cases may have subsequently acquired a new infection.

Proportion of cases of multi-drug resistant( 1) TB with a previous history of tuberculosis, England, 1998 to 2006( 2)
	Previous history of TB
	Number	Percentage	Total number of multi-drug resistant cases
1998	11	48	23
1999	5	36	14
2000	8	36	22
2001	—	22	23
2002	8	31	26
2003	6	18	34
2004	6	22	27
2005	8	27	30
2006	12	30	40
(1) Resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, with or without resistance to other drugs. (2) Of cases with known previous history of tuberculosis.

Following the publication by the World Health Organisation of the definition for extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB in 2006, the HPA reviewed all cases reported from 2003 to 2006. A single case of XDR TB was identified in a patient reported in England in 2003. A further XDR case has been reported from Scotland in 2008.

A subsequent retrospective review was carried out by the HPA of drug susceptibility testing results, where these were available, on all tuberculosis isolates
14 May 2008 : Column 1658W
reported in the United Kingdom from 1993 to 2002. A further six isolates were identified as conforming to the definition of XDR TB from this period.

Treatment outcomes are currently reported 12 months after the start of treatment. Multi-drug resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB cases require treatment for considerably longer than 12 months and outcome of treatment is not, therefore, routinely available in these cases.

International Development

Africa: Overseas Aid

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what UK bilateral aid programmes are under way in (a) Gambia, (b) Cameroon, (c) Guinea and (d) the Democratic Republic of Congo; and what the likely (i) cost and (ii) duration is of each. [204971]

Gillian Merron: The following tables show all the UK bilateral aid programmes with a value of £500,000 or more currently under way in the Gambia, Cameroon, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(a) Gambia
		Commitment
Sector	Programme	£ million	From	To
Education	Basic Education Support for Poverty Reduction	3.5	2005	2010
Governance	Legal Capacity Building Programme	2.65	2004	2010
	Financial Governance Programme	1.7	2004	2009
	Support to the Pro-Poor Advocacy Group	0.57	2005	2009
Civil Society	Concern Universal: Empowering Civil Society Organisations	0.55	2006	2009

(b) Cameroon
		Commitment
Sector	Programme	£ million	From	To
Environment	Targeted Sector Budget Support to the Forest and Environment Sector Programme (FESP)	4	2006	2009
	Basket Fund Technical Capacity Building to the FESP	4	2005	2008
	Forest Governance Facility	2.38	2006	2009
	World Bank/DFID collaboration to support the forestry sector	0.64	2004	2009

(c) Guinea
		Commitment
Sector	Programme	£ million	From	To
Governance	Preparation for Democratic Government	0.5	2007	2009

14 May 2008 : Column 1659W


14 May 2008 : Column 1660W

(d) Democratic Republic of Congo
		Commitment
Sector	Programme	£ million	From	To
Emergency	Humanitarian Pooled Fund	90	2006	2008
Governance	Strengthening Democracy and Accountability in the DRC	63.88	2008	2012
	Support to the Electoral process	21.17	2004	2008
	Media for Strengthening Democracy and Accountability	8.11	2007	2012
	Peace Building and Citizenship in the DRC	2.37	2006	2009
	Restoration of Justice in the East of Congo	2	2007	2009
	Support to European Union Security Sector Reform Mission -Chain of Payments project	0.7	2008	2008
	Security Sector Accountability and Police programme	0.5	2008	2013
	EU Security Mission Consultancy	0.5	2005	2008
Civil Society	Communities Sowing the Future of Congo	24.84	2007	2010
Health	Provision of free health care	30.7	2007	2011
	Subsidised Insecticide Treated Net Programme	17.08	2001	2008
	DRC Quick Start Health	9.76	2003	2008
	Christian Aid HIV project	4.625	2006	2011
	Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) Rapid Reaction Fund	1.8	2006	2008
	DRC-Christian Relief Network Fistula Programme	0.95	2005	2008
	Medecins Sans Frontieres—Belgium Emergency Pool	0.7	2007	2008
Infrastructure	Support to Transport Infrastructure (Republic of Congo Pro-Routes)	38	2008	2013
	Rehabilitation and Maintenance of K2 Road	4.62	2004	2009
	Support to Transport Infrastructure (Pro-Routes)—Preparation Stage	1.18	2006	2012
	UK/China work on Roads impact mitigation in DRC	0.5	2008	2009
Water and Sanitation	Water Supply to Mbuji Mayi	2.5	2007	2009
Public Administration	Minerals Support Programme	1.15	2007	2010
	Strengthening DRC Forest Sector	0.74	2006	2009
Humanitarian	International Committee of Red Cross	9	2006	2008
	Volcano risk management Unit	0.9	2007	2008
Education	Access to Primary Education	2.5	2006	2008

---