673
1983
$ million)
Written
[ 21 NOVEMBER 1984]
Member Countries
Gross Aid Disbursements
Answers
Me Mai
Non-Member Countries
Cambodia 124 (£82m)
Afghanistan
Group I Countries
Cuba
Vietnam
Mongolia
Laos
Total CMEA
690 (£455m) 1,205 (£794m)
630 (£415m)
47 (£31m)
331 (£218m)
USSR Eastern Europe
500 (£330m) 190 (£125m)
1,025 (£676m) 180 (£119m)
620 (£409m)
38 (£25m)
10 (£6.6m)
9 (£6m)
110(£73m) 14 (£9m)
31,2 (£206m)
of which:
-
Total CMEA
of which:
USSR
•
Eastern Europe
19 (£12.5m)
Net Aid Disbursements
Group I Countries Ful..
2,946 (£1,942m)
2,524 (£1,664m) 422 (£278m)
674 (399
Group II Countries
Other Non- Member Countries 391 (258m)
312(£206m) 79 (£52m)
Group II Countries -197-(£— 130m) 1861 NON-253m) AULSK98 (£ x64; 7m),
"Net disbursements to individual Group I countries cannot be shown as comprehensive information on loan repayments is not available.
DAC Member Countries
Gross Aid Disbursements
to Developing Countries
29,020 (£19,130m)
Net Aid Disbursemenis
to Developing Countries 27,464 (£18,104m)
Private Elows. to Developing Countries 34,671 (£22,855m)
PUCK
Voluntary Hanis to Developing Countries 2,344 (£1,545m)
DAC member.countries are as follows: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. (US $1 equivalent to £-6592)
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HONG KONG: REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT
Lord Fanshawe of Richmond asked Her Majesty's Government:
If they will make a statement on the further development of representative government in Hong Kong.
Baroness Young: The Hong Kong Government have today published a White Paper on the further development of representative government in the territory. Copies of this paper have been placed in the Library of the House.
After the publication on 18th July of the Green *Paper on representative government, two months were allowed for public comment, which was received from a wide variety of sources. There was general support for the aims of the Green Paper and the gradual and progressive nature of the proposals made in it. The White Paper, which takes account of these views, sets out the Hong Kong Government's intentions for the 1985 elections to the Legislative Council.
The main points in it are:
(a) Twelve members (rather than six as proposed in the Green Paper) will be elected to the Legislative Council by an electoral college in 1985. Ten will be elected by groups of district board members, organised in a regional basis, and one each by the urban council and the proposed new regional council.
(b) Twelve members (instead of the six originally proposed) will be elected in 1985 from nine functional constituencies representing various important sectors of the community. (c) The number of appointed members of the Legislative Council will be reduced in 1985 from the present total of 30 to 22 (instead of the 23 envisaged in the Green Paper) and the number of official members from the present 16 to 10 (instead of 13).
(d) As a result of the above changes, the membership of the Legislative Council will increase from 46 to 56. Twenty-four of these will be elected.
(e) A further review of progress towards represen- tative government will be made in 1987 (rather than 1989 as envisaged in the Green Paper).
SHOPS LEGISLATION: REPORT
Lord Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon asked Her Majesty's Government:
When they intend to publish the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Proposals to Amend the Shops Acts; and whether they will make a Statement.
The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Elton): My right honourable friend the Home Secretary is publishing the commitee's report today. As we said when we set up this committee last year, there is widespread agreement that the present law is unsatisfactory and in need of reform, and we are grateful to Mr. Robin Auld, the chairman, and his two committee members, Mrs. Liliana Archibald and Miss Frances Cairncross, for the depth and extent of their study. We welcome the report, which we will wish to consider carefully, in the light of reactions to it, before reaching any conclusions.
MINISTERS' POWERS: AFFIRMATIVE RESOLUTION PROCEDURE
Lord Diamond asked Her Majesty's Government: Which Acts of Parliament enacted since they took office in 1979 contain a proviso that the exercise by the relevant Minister of powers granted to him in those Acts are subject to an affirmative resolution of both Houses of Parliament.
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