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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list by country the value of the outstanding debts on (a) United Kingdom aid loans and (b) loans guaranteed by the British Government through the Export Credits Guarantee Department, showing separately the amount that is classified as (i) pre-cut-off date and (ii) post-cut-off date, for each of the countries defined by the World bank as developing countries. [100020] Mr. Caborn: From the information available, Annexe A shows the value of outstanding amounts in respect of United Kingdom aid loans and Annexe B the outstanding value of unrecovered claims under guarantees issued through the Export Credits Guarantee Department to Developing Markets. The ECGD data are divided into amounts paid as claims which remain outstanding but which have been officially rescheduled, and claims paid that are not yet subject to a rescheduling agreement. All the amounts that have been rescheduled are in respect of pre cut off business, but amounts outstanding which are not subject to rescheduling are likely to include both pre and post cut off amounts. ECGD is not readily able to split these data on a pre and post cut off basis. Annexe A: Balance outstanding under Direct Bilateral Capital Aid agreements £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Country Balance at 31 March 1999 Afghanistan 66,670.00 Antigua and Barbuda 1991 2,044,168.17 Bangladesh 292,451.32 Barbados 136,070.30 Belize 12,270,757.44 Botswana 153,769.08 Brazil 1,692,335.68 Cameroon -- Cayman Islands 1975/1 174,037.49 Columbia 169,867.19 Costa Rica 765,798.46 Cyprus 130,774.00 Dominica 5,788,731.80 Ecuador 7,539,648.69 Egypt 3,363,360.81 Ethiopia -- Gambia -- Ghana 10,172,487.21 Grenada 1,429,108.50 Guyana 30,155,434.73 Honduras 1,911,143.04 India 2,432,000.00 Indonesia -- Ivory Coast 2,115,892.38 Jamaica 32,994,877.44 Jordan 20,019,655.10 Laos 1,275.00 Malawi 396,000.00 Malaysia 2,879,159.31 Mauritius 438,250.22 Mozambique 1976 3,408,903.92 Nicaragua 398,200.00 Nigeria 4,233,084.04 Pakistan 750,664.58 Paraguay 1,759,500.00 Peru 5,170,602.44 Philippines 2,397,068.00 Senegal 272,329.67 Seychelles 7,885,673.72 Sierra Leone -- Solomon Islands 1981 1,844,700.15 Sri Lanka 76,200.17 St. Kitts 2,734,970.00 St. Lucia 2,499,500.00 St. Vincent 3,289,200.00 Sudan -- Swaziland 1,537,779.89 Tonga 240,202.80 Tunisia Turkey 22,726,151.73 TCI 1,421,260.87 Zambia 33,309,320.27 W. Samoa -- Zimbabwe 10,917,268.70 Total Bilateral 246,406,304.31 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Balance outstanding under aid loans made via ECGD _________________________________________________________________________________________________. ECGD £ Liberia 77,749.58 Nigeria 672,000.00 Total 749,749.58 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Balance outstanding under aid loans made via multilateral institutions _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Multilateral £ Turkey 15,107,325.62 EEC/IDA 57,190,198.17 EEC/EIB 336,099,288.37 CDB 834,817.19 Total 409,231,629.35 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Annexe B: ECGD unrecovered claim to developing markets as at 31 March 1999 £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Claims paid: which have not been rescheduled which have been rescheduled Total Highly Indebted Poor countries Angola 4.52 52.23 56.75 Burkina Faso 0.00 0.57 0.57 Burundi 0.00 0.00 Cameroon 2.73 33.83 36.56 Central African Republic 0.00 0.25 0.25 Congo 0.14 58.08 58.22 Congo (Dr) 9.92 41.47 51.39 Cote d'Ivoire 16.22 11.83 28.05 Ethiopia 3.03 11.61 14.64 Ghana 0.07 2.09 2.16 Guinea 0.00 1.44 1.44 Guinea Bissau 0.00 0.00 Guyana 0.04 13.95 13.99 Haiti 0.00 0.00 Honduras 0.00 0.00 Liberia 2.50 6.52 9.02 Madagascar 0.00 14.80 14.80 Malawi 4.01 0.69 4.70 Mali 0.00 3.87 3.87 Mauritania 0.00 4.61 4.61 Mozambique 0.00 35.93 35.93 Myanmar 23.07 23.07 Nicaragua 0.00 0.40 0.40 Niger 0.00 5.41 5.41 Nigeria 22.42 1,843.10 1,865.52 Rwanda 0.10 0.10 Sao Tome 0.00 0.00 Sierra Leone 0.00 1.04 1.04 Somalia 0.14 12.18 12.32 Sudan 3.41 126.07 129.48 Tanzania 0.03 32.40 32.43 Uganda 0.00 2.49 2.49 Vietnam 0.00 5.84 5.84 Yemen Republic 0.17 3.08 3.25 Zambia 0.16 101.31 101.47 Moderately Indebted Low Income countries Bangladesh 0.00 0.00 Benin 0.08 2.53 2.61 Cambodia 0.00 0.00 Chad 0.00 0.00 Comoras 0.00 0.00 Gambia 0.06 0.06 India 2.50 2.50 Kenya 2.02 32.90 34.92 Lao PDR 0.00 0.00 Pakistan 0.26 0.26 Senegal 0.02 0.80 0.82 Togo 0.37 9.11 9.48 Zimbabwe 0.32 0.32 Severely Indebted Middle Income countries Argentina 6.87 50.99 57.86 Bolivia 0.02 8.99 9.01 Brazil 1.95 380.58 382.53 Bulgaria 0.02 11.39 11.41 Cuba 24.55 27.96 52.51 Ecuador 0.18 31.96 32.14 Gabon 0.00 83.10 83.10 Indonesia 86.85 86.85 Iraq 625.05 625.05 Jamaica 0.67 2.23 2.90 Jordan 19.37 311.19 330.56 Peru 0.14 87.13 87.27 Syrian Arab Republic 0.05 0.05 Moderately Indebted Middle Income countries Algeria 4.37 166.49 170.86 Chile 0.11 0.11 Colombia 0.08 0.08 Georgia 0.00 0.00 Hungary 0.02 0.02 Macedonia 0.00 3.51 3.51 Malaysia 0.02 0.02 Mexico 24.68 65.79 90.47 Morocco 0.09 48.70 48.79 Panama -0.11 -0.11 Philippines 9.31 20.07 29.38 St. Vincent 0.00 0.00 Thailand 0.26 0.26 Tunisia 0.00 0.00 Turkey 0.00 0.00 Uruguay 0.00 0.00 Venezuela 0.31 0.31 Severely Indebted Low Income countries Afghanistan 0.00 0.00 Burundi 0.00 0.00 Laos 0.00 0.00 Liberia 0.00 0.00 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. [Continued in column 159W]

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

340 c155-8W;340 c155-7W; 100020

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Debts Developing countries UK Export Finance Loans

Contains statistics

Yes