Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 March 1993.
Mr Mark Lennox-Boyd
, Morecambe and Lunesdale
12:00,
1 March 1993
The hon. Gentleman asks several questions. Let us deal with the public expenditure survey for the next three years. At a time of great economic stringency, if he takes all forms of external assistance, he will find an increase of 10 per cent. in cash terms and 1 per cent. in real terms. [Interruption.] It is the ODA's budget. If the hon. Gentleman were to penalise the banks' accounting procedures for lending to the third world. It would stop them lending to the third world.