Welfare and Development Grants

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — African Colonies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1947.

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Mr. Creech Jones:

The total of schemes made or about to be made under the 1940 and 1945 Colonial Development and Welfare Acts in respect of West Africa is £15 million, of which rather over £3 million is in respect of major building programmes, and about £12 million, or 80 per cent., in respect of other schemes.