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Pakistan: Terrorism

Volume 468: debated on Monday 26 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of UK financial assistance to Pakistan is for counter-terrorism purposes; and if he will make a statement. (166125)

I refer the right hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Mr. Moore) on 20 November 2007, Official Report, columns 743-44W and the reply my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development gave to the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk on 19 November 2007, Official Report, columns 533-34W. The total planned expenditure on UK co-operation with Pakistan in 2007-08 is £111.7 million of which £2.3 million (2 per cent.) is for counter- terrorism programmes funded through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Global Opportunities Fund.