To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of expenditure of funds saved by United Kingdom withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organisation and figures of how these funds were used in the main area of United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organisation activity for the financial years 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1989–90; and if he will ensure that the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organisation's savings will continue to be spent in the same manner until Her Majesty's Government decide to return to membership of the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organisation.
Figures for expenditure of funds saved by United Kingdom's withdrawal from UNESCO for 1987–88 and 1988–89 are:
| 1987–88 £ | 1988–89 £ | |
| Overseas Development Administration (ODA) technical co-operation training programme | 1,772,848 | 1,773,033 |
| English language training courses | 600,300 | 593,920 |
| ODA shared scholarship schemes | 320,000 | 320,000 |
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) scholarships and awards schemes | 640,000 | 640,000 |
| ODA cultural projects | 100,000 | 92,000 |
| Public expenditure survey transfer to FCO for cultural projects | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Chinese student scholarships in the United Kingdom | 950,000 | 950,000 |
| Distance learning project in Commonwealth countries | 100,000 | |
| Nassau fellowships | 650,131 | 743,368 |
| Commonwealth media development fund | 150,000 | 150,000 |
| Royal Society | 112,000 | 116,000 |
| Research in arid Commonwealth Africa | 300,000 | 300,000 |
| Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission | 80,864 | 78,000 |
| Man and the Biosphere/International Hydrological Programme/International Association of Hydrological Sciences | 200,000 | 200,000 |
| Dissemination of results of research | 200,000 | 200,000 |
| Total | 6,276,143 | 6,256,321 |