Developing Countries (Income)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 April 1972.

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Photo of Mr Edwin Wainwright Mr Edwin Wainwright , Dearne Valley 12:00, 24 April 1972

Will the right hon. Gentleman give greater consideration to the kind of aid we give to the developing and under-developed nations? Western Europe helps them by giving them technical advice, but the situation is not satisfactory when it comes to purchasing the goods they produce. At one time we received a ton of cocoa from some of the developing countries as the price of every tractor we sold to them, but now we receive five tons. Is that how we help them?