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Single Currency

Volume 327: debated on Thursday 18 March 1999

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the subject areas within his Department's responsibilities which will be covered by the information campaign on Britain's membership of a single currency. [73666]

Her Majesty's Treasury will continue its dialogue with key external bodies to determine what information the public and business would need at each stage of the changeover process. Any information campaign would cover key concerns that the public and business may have. Chapter eight of HMT's "Outline National Changeover Plan" provides further information. Copies of the Plan are available in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to issue information from his Department to help the public make an informed decision when they vote on the single currency. [73589]

Any plans by the Government to issue information during a referendum campaign on whether or not the UK should join the single currency would be

£
FY 98–99FY 97–98FY 96–97
Sponsored visits from Turkey to the UK18,92712,818unavailable
Chevening Scholarships for Turkish students230,146123,21458,000
Police training (under the ASSIST scheme, previously UKMTAS)143,46000
Command programme budgets (including training, environmental and human rights projects)291,88027,37525,678
Human Rights Project Fund (established 1998)165,700
1 Provisional
2 Provisional figures including funding allocated in 1997–98 but dispersed in 1998–99 or not yet dispersed
All applications for financing projects under the Human Rights Project Fund, the Command Programme Budgets and ASSIST are considered against a range of criteria, which themselves derive from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Objectives.Projects once authorised are subject to supervision by the Embassy in Akara. The Embassy provides reports to relevant FCO departments on projects as they develop and assessments of projects on completion.