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Written Answers

Tuesday, 22 March 2005.

Electoral Registration (Northern Ireland) Bill

Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:

Which political parties made representations to them concerning the issues in the proposed Electoral Registration (Northern Ireland) Bill, announced by the Lord President on 31 January. [HL1143]

The Lord President of the Council (Baroness Amos): The Minister of State, John Spellar, met separately with the Democratic Unionist Party, the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Sinn Fein, the Alliance Party, the Progressive Unionist Party and the UK Unionist Party to discuss the future of electoral registration in Northern Ireland. These meetings took place in November 2004.
 
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Africa: G8 Aid

Lord Owen asked Her Majesty's Government:

(a) how much aid they and the other G8 countries have provided to Africa as a percentage of gross domestic product over the past 30 years; and (b) how this compares to the total overseas aid budget for these years. [HL1771]

Baroness Amos: The information requested is given in the tables below. Note that:

Russia is not included as it is not a (Development Assistance Committee) DAC donor;

official development assistance (ODA) is usually given as percentage of gross national income (GNI) in line with the UN target

the amounts to Africa do not include contributions channelled through multilateral organisations, although the latter are included in the total in Table B.
 
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Table A

Bilateral net ODA to Africa as percentage of gross national income (GNI)
	Canada	France	Germany	Italy	Japan	UK	USA
1974	0.11	0.25	0.08	0.01	0.01	0.07	0.02
1975	0.13	0.25	0.10	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.02
1976	0.11	0.22	0.09	0.02	0.01	0.07	0.03
1977	0.08	0.20	0.08	0.01	0.02	0.06	0.04
1978	0.11	0.21	0.10	0.01	0.03	0.08	0.05
1979	0.10	0.20	0.12	0.01	0.04	0.10	0.05
1980	0.10	0.21	0.10	0.01	0.04	0.09	0.06
1981	0.09	0.23	0.11	0.02	0.03	0.09	0.06
1982	0.11	0.26	0.14	0.05	0.03	0.08	0.05
1983	0.09	0.24	0.13	0.06	0.03	0.07	0.06
1984	0.12	0.27	0.12	0.11	0.03	0.06	0.06
1985	0.11	0.28	0.12	0.13	0.03	0.07	0.07
1986	0.09	0.26	0.11	0.17	0.03	0.06	0.05
1987	0.10	0.26	0.10	0.18	0.03	0.06	0.04
1988	0.10	0.26	0.11	0.20	0.04	0.08	0.04
1989	0.10	0.28	0.11	0.14	0.04	0.08	0.04
1990	0.09	0.31	0.12	0.12	0.04	0.06	0.06
1991	0.09	0.30	0.09	0.08	0.05	0.08	0.07
1992	0.10	0.30	0.11	0.10	0.03	0.07	0.05
1993	0.07	0.30	0.08	0.08	0.03	0.05	0.04
1994	0.06	0.30	0.07	0.11	0.03	0.06	0.04
1995	0.07	0.24	0.06	0.04	0.03	0.05	0.03
1996	0.07	0.22	0.07	0.03	0.03	0.06	0.02
1997	0.05	0.20	0.07	0.03	0.02	0.05	0.02
1998	0.06	0.16	0.05	0.04	0.03	0.06	0.02
1999	0.04	0.14	0.05	0.02	0.03	0.06	0.02
2000	0.03	0.14	0.05	0.02	0.03	0.08	0.02
2001	0.03	0.12	0.05	0.02	0.03	0.08	0.02
2002	0.05	0.18	0.05	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.03
2003	0.06	0.20	0.09	0.05	0.02	0.08	0.05

Table B

Bilateral net ODA to Africa as percentage of total net ODA
	Canada	France	Germany	Italy	Japan	UK	USA
1974	24.0	55.9	22.1	8.4	4.1	16.7	7.6
1975	24.4	56.8	25.6	20.3	9.6	15.4	7.5
1976	23.6	55.2	26.3	19.2	7.3	17.1	11.9
1977	16.0	52.7	25.5	11.6	10.8	13.9	15.5
1978	20.5	53.6	28.4	4.9	12.8	16.5	17.6
1979	20.4	46.4	26.1	7.4	13.3	18.7	23.4
1980	22.5	47.8	23.2	8.5	11.1	25.6	21.1
1981	21.4	44.8	22.9	14.4	10.0	20.6	28.5
1982	27.6	46.2	28.7	22.4	12.2	20.3	20.0
1983	19.8	43.1	26.2	31.5	9.7	18.5	23.0
1984	23.6	43.8	27.5	40.0	8.8	18.6	25.6
1985	22.6	44.9	26.4	49.1	10.1	21.5	30.4
1986	18.6	45.7	25.1	43.0	10.5	19.0	22.7
1987	21.5	43.7	26.5	51.0	9.6	21.2	22.2
1988	20.2	44.9	26.9	50.6	12.9	24.1	17.1
1989	22.2	46.7	27.1	33.5	13.5	27.0	24.1
1990	20.2	51.5	28.9	38.1	11.8	21.7	31.0
1991	20.2	49.2	24.4	27.6	15.0	24.6	36.1
1992	20.8	47.4	28.3	29.3	9.3	22.6	25.6
1993	16.4	47.6	21.6	26.2	11.5	17.0	24.7
1994	14.7	47.0	22.1	39.9	10.6	20.5	25.4
1995	18.5	43.1	20.1	29.5	11.1	19.1	25.1
1996	23.2	44.6	21.7	16.2	14.1	20.1	17.6
1997	13.8	44.5	23.8	23.7	10.3	19.0	27.4
1998	19.7	40.4	20.0	19.7	10.4	21.8	21.5
1999	15.4	36.8	19.3	13.5	10.0	23.5	21.5
2000	12.5	44.1	17.3	18.3	9.1	25.6	21.2
2001	14.2	36.5	16.6	12.0	11.1	26.3	17.3
2002	19.4	47.5	19.0	34.8	7.5	21.3	24.0
2003	25.4	49.5	30.4	30.6	7.9	24.0	31.2

 
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Future Aircraft Carrier

Lord Astor of Hever asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 28 February (WA 6) on the aircraft carrier project:

(a) how many individuals have been contributed by each of the participants in the alliance to the integrated team responsible for managing and executing the future aircraft carrier project;

(b) where that team is located;

(c) who are the members of the Alliance Management Board;

(d) which participant each represents;

(e) when the management board most recently met; and

(f) when it is next due to meet. [HL1656]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Bach): The structure and content of the aircraft carrier alliance integrated team is dependent on the stage of the project, the skills required and the resources available from the alliance participants. Around 40 companies have also, at differing times, been involved in supplying personnel into the project team. In terms of the industrial alliance participants, currently BAe Systems provides around 60 to 65 core personnel, Thales UK around 40 to 45 core personnel, and KBR UK around 15 to 20 personnel. The numbers and distribution between alliance participants will evolve and change over the life of the project. The team is currently located across three sites in the Bristol area.

Membership of the Alliance Management Board (AMB) currently consists of: the MoD's CVF IPT Leader; the managing director BAe Systems CVF; the managing director Thales Naval Ltd; and the director KBR Maritime Operations. The AMB meets on a regular basis as part of routine business.
 
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Lord Astor of Hever asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 28 February (WA 6), whether any drafts have yet been prepared and considered of:

(a) the alliance agreement; and

(b) the works contracts

for the future aircraft carrier project. [HL1657]

Lord Bach: Drafts of the alliance agreement and works contracts for the demonstration and manufacture phases of the future aircraft carrier project continue to be developed in preparation for the main investment decision, currently targeted for the latter half of 2005.

Gulf War Illnesses

Lord Morris of Manchester asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 8 March (WA 74), whether they will provide a breakdown of the estimate of the £25,000 cost of providing information on the legal and other costs incurred in contesting war pension claims from veterans of the 1990–91 Gulf conflict. [HL1680]

Lord Bach: There have been 1,349 appeals as at December 2004 by veterans of the 1990–91 Gulf conflict for various claimed medical conditions. Each case would have to be examined to try to determine the cost of processing the appeal.

On the broad assumption that each case would involve at least two hours of Veterans Agency staff effort at administrative officer level and applying the accepted hourly rate of £10.25, the overall cost of providing such information would be in excess of £25,000.

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