To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what percentages of Overseas Development Administration funds intended to help protect tropical rain forests, including and excluding funding for the Oxford Forestry Institute, are to be channelled through the tropical forestry action plan.

The tropical forestry action plan is not a fund or organisation to which donors contribute funds. It is a mechanism under which recipient countries review their forestry sectors and donors can co-ordinate assistance. Of the 51 bilateral projects currently under consideration for funding from the further £100 million far tropical forestry announced by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister last November, 19 are in the context of national forestry action plans. Some of the future projects which come forward for funding from the £100 million will also be so. Most of the support we give the Oxford Forestry Institute is for research, outside the context of national forestry action plans.