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Mrs. Clwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much Britain contributed financially to (a) International Labour Organisation, (b) Food and Agriculture Organisation, (c) International Food and Agriculture Development, (d) United Nations Development Programme, (e) World Food Programme, (f) UNICEF, (g) United Nations High Commission for Refugees, (h) United Nations Food for Population Articles and (i) United Nations Environment Programme, in cash and real terms for each year since 1979.
Mrs. Chalker
Contributions were as follows, using Her Majesty's Treasury's GDP deflator for the real terms data:
| United Kingdom contributions to multilateral agencies 1979–90 in cash terms | ||||||||||||
| £ thousands | ||||||||||||
| Organisations | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
| International Labour Organisation | 2,181 | 2,800 | 1,904 | 2,963 | 3,749 | 4,059 | 4,668 | 3,918 | 3,813 | 4,218 | 5,574 | 5,832 |
| Food and Agriculture Organisation | 2,482 | 3,217 | 3,616 | 5,592 | 6,195 | 8,153 | 6,779 | 7,358 | 5,760 | 8,518 | 8,611 | 9,626 |
| International Fund for Agricultural Development | — | — | 881 | 2,110 | 3,552 | 4,243 | 5,450 | 3,509 | 3,280 | 2,564 | 3,213 | 2,625 |
| United Nations Development Programme | 28,533 | 15,000 | 17,500 | 18,500 | 18,500 | 19,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 23,000 | 24,500 | 26,001 | 27,114 |
| World Food Programme1 | 7,017 | 2,488 | 1,853 | 3,392 | 828 | 1,039 | 500 | 500 | 10,392 | 4,542 | 15,674 | 4,030 |
| United Nations Children's | 7,382 | 4,991 | 7,356 | 5,983 | 6,069 | 6,025 | 8,400 | 8,308 | 12,000 | 12,223 | 12,200 | 9,285 |
| United Nations High Commission for Refugees | 8,987 | 6,974 | 5,857 | 6,235 | 3,720 | 7,095 | 16,860 | 14,020 | 14,800 | 19,470 | 19,316 | 19,495 |
| United Nations Fund for Population Activities | 3,875 | 2,000 | 2,250 | 2,650 | 2,700 | 3,000 | 4,500 | 4,500 | 5,000 | 5,250 | 5,500 | 3,000 |
| United Nations Environment Programme | 599 | 593 | 600 | 600 | 750 | 750 | 750 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,250 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 1 Contributions to the World Food Programme include subscription payments, commodity purchase and, from 1987, food aid. Prior to 1987 the food aid channelled through WFP could not be distinguished from other food aid, and therefore is not included in this table. | ||||||||||||