To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what funding his Department has allocated for operations in Afghanistan in each year since 2001; and what estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on such operations in the next three years. (269921)

The information on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) funding for operations in Afghanistan, prior to 2006, is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, we can provide the following data of FCO spend in Afghanistan for financial years 2006 to 2009 to show our major areas of spending up to the end of the current Comprehensive Spending Review period: