Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 October 1980.
Mr Neil Marten
, Banbury
12:00,
27 October 1980
Yes, but the previous Anglo-American proposals were a different ball game. There was no international reaction to the figure that was proposed then, which, I think, was plucked out of the air. Our pledge of £75 million is generous, and it will be one of our largest aid programmes in Africa.