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Armed Conflict: Finance

Volume 459: debated on Thursday 26 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding and resources (a) were committed in each of the last three financial years and (b) are pledged for each of the next three financial years for the global conflict prevention pool, broken down by regional pool. (134126)

I have been asked to reply.

The 2004 comprehensive spending round settlement allocated a baseline figure of £74 million each financial year (FY) for the global conflict prevention pool (GCPP) for FY 2004-05 to FY 2007-08. The following table illustrates how funds were allocated to each of the GCPP strategies in each FY. Overall allocation totals each year do not amount to the baseline settlement figure as the pool has a reserve for unplanned activity, carried forward from in-year underspend under Government accounting rules.

The table also includes figures for the current financial year.

£ million

Financial Years

GCPP Strategy

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Afghanistan - Counter Narcotics

11,471,576

10,000,000

10,000,000

10,000,000

Afghanistan - Main

15,350,000

10,000,000

9,500,000

11,500,000

Balkans

10,450,000

8,250,000

7,500,000

7,500,000

Caribbean

1,000,000

750,000

750,000

750,000

Central and Eastern Europe (closed in 2006-07)

3,450,000

300,000

India - Pakistan

1,350,000

1,000,000

750,000

750,000

Indonesia - East Timor

1,200,000

750,000

500,000

500,000

Iraq

18,342,375

13,880,000

119,500,000

14,000,000

Latin America (incl. Belize/Guatemala)

1,350,000

1,250,000

750,000

750,000

Middle East/North Africa

5,500,000

5,000,000

4,500,000

2,500,000

Nepal

5,500,000

2,000,000

25,200,000

2,300,000

Russia/Commonwealth of Independent States

11,300,000

6,500,000

6,000,000

5,100,000

Security Sector Reform

4,700,000

7,000,000

6,250,000

6,250,000

Small Arms and Light Weapons

5,500,000

4,000,000

3,250,000

3,250,000

Sri Lanka

1,000,000

750,000

500,000

500,000

United Nations

8,600,000

8,500,000

7,500,000

7,400,000

Total

106,063,951

79,930,000

71,750,000

73,050,000

1 Includes a £7 million in-year uplift from the reserve. 2 Includes a £3.7 million in-year uplift from the reserve

Funding for the three years from 2008-09 to 2010-11 will be agreed as part of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review 2007.