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Mr. Spearing
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much of the total sum to date made available by Her Majesty's Government for famine relief measures for Africa has been paid by the contingency reserve in the Estimates for 1984–85; what sums have been made available from other sources; and what was the balance in the contingency reserve on 31 March.
Mr. Raison
I expect spending in 1984–85 on famine relief measures for Africa to be funded as follows:
| £ million | £ million | |
| Contingency reserve allocations | 17 | |
| Food aid national actions and European development fund allocations | 27 | |
| Reallocations from slippage elsewhere in the aid programme | 10 | |
| — | ||
| Total from within voted aid funds | 54 | |
| United Kingdom share of allocations from EC budgetised aid (non-voted) | 35 | |
| Cost to Ministry of Defence of RAF Hercules operation in Ethiopia* | 6 | |
| — | ||
| 95 | ||
| * The extra costs of mounting operation Bushel are currently estimated at up to £1·5 million per month. As an exceptional case, MoD agreed to bear the costs for the first three months of the deployment (to the beginning of February 1985). Since then the costs have been shared equally between MoD and ODA. | ||