To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department has spent on sending secondees to the OSCE in each of the last five years. (261959)

Our approximate spending on UK secondees to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in each of the last five years is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) staff of his Department and (b) other UK nationals are seconded to the OSCE institutions, including Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and OSCE field missions; and how many of each have been so seconded in each of the last five years. (261960)

We currently have 14 UK secondees to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), none of whom are Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff.

Over the last five years, we have seconded the following numbers of civilian staff to the OSCE:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost to the Government was for election observation conducted by (a) OSCE, (b) the European Union and (c) the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in each of the last 10 years. (261961)

The cost of the UK's contribution to Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) election observation over the last five years is as follows:

Details on OSCE funding prior to 2004 is held only in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office archives and is not readily available. To find this information would incur disproportionate cost.

The European Commission funds EU election assistance and observation. The UK contributes through its overall payments to the EU, which means that we cannot provide a breakdown for each of the last 10 years. Similarly, we pay for Council of Europe election observation through our assessed contributions, and as such cannot provide a detailed indication of our costs.