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Dept for International Development

Answer

Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will itemise and state the value of (i) aid and (ii) trade preferences provided, respectively by the United Kingdom and the European Union, for (a) Trinidad and Tobago, (b) Jamaica and (c) each of the other Caribbean Commonwealth countries which have the penalty of capital punishment. [86408] Clare Short: Net figures for official development assistance (oda) provided in 1997 (the latest year for which full figures are available) to those Commonwealth Caribbean Countries which retain statutory provision for capital punishment are as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. UK EC Antigua and Barbuda 0.3 0.8 Barbados 0.3 3.5 Belize 1.0 2.7 Dominica 5.2 -0.4 Guyana 91.9 4.0 Jamaica -2.9 45.6 St. Kitts and Nevis 0.2 0.8 St. Lucia 1.4 6.9 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2 0.1 Trinidad and Tobago 0.4 20.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Negative figures are the result of repayments on past oda loans. The UK oda figure for Guyana is particularly high because of a large debt relief payment made in 1997. As with other non-EU members of the Lome Convention, the Caribbean benefits from Lome trade preferences including those relating to commodities. It would not be possible to quantify the value of these preferences to the countries in question without disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

86408; 333 c47-8W;333 c48W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Commonwealth Development aid Capital punishment Overseas trade EU aid Caribbean Lomé Convention

Contains statistics

Yes