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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Sir Robert Hicks: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the United Kingdom aid programmes to Yemen during the current financial year for (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral aid indicating the amount of funding; and if he will make a statement. [11685] Dr. Fox: Figures are not yet available for expenditure in this financial year, but the outturn is expected to be similar to 1995-96. The bilateral programme is funding the Liverpool Port Consultancy Portia to undertake an impact study and preparation of programme specification on Aden port. Other activities this year include British partnership scheme funded projects. These range from support for the electronic engineering faculty at Hadramawt university and for the Central Statistical Office to English tuition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ODA also commissioned an appraisal of the Al Gamhouria hospital in Aden. This assignment was completed in the first half of 1996. The balance of the budget for this year is meeting the cost of continuing postgraduate education commitments in the UK. Following very heavy flooding in eastern Yemen in May and June, the ODA funded nearly £500,000 of emergency assistance which was delivered through the Red Crescent and other non-governmental organisations. Figures are not available for multilateral aid expenditure in this financial year. In the past six years, approximately £22 million--UK share £5 million--has been committed by the EC in the form of economic and development assistance to Yemen. It is expected that commitments and disbursements should continue at roughly the same level and pace over the next two years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

11685; 288 c614W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Development aid Bilateral aid Yemen

Contains statistics

Yes