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Terrorism: Finance

Volume 490: debated on Friday 27 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 227W, on terrorism: finance, to which (a) countries and (b) projects the £20 million spent in 2008-09 on tackling radicalisation and promoting understanding overseas was allocated. (267423)

In order to protect the safety and security of organisations delivering sensitive projects overseas, we do not plan to publish a breakdown by country or by project of the £20 million allocated in 2008-09 to tackling radicalisation and promoting understanding overseas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, columns 226-7W, on terrorism: finance, if he will publish details of the monitoring process agreed between the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and the National Audit Office. (267424)

We have agreed a system with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and the National Audit Office under which baselines indicating the level of capability to effectively counter radicalisation in each country have been established. Projects designed to improve each country's capability are evaluated on completion to assess how they contribute to an improvement. External verification is an important part of this, and lessons learned from the evaluation are used to improve the future design of projects.