To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much funding has been allocated from the Strategic Programme Fund to assist (a) the Afghanistan counter-narcotic strategic priority and (b) other projects involving Afghanistan. (274942)

[holding answer 12 May 2009]: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has allocated £21.9 million from the Strategic Programme Fund (SPF) in support of counter-narcotics work in Afghanistan in 2009-10. In addition to this the Counter Terrorism and Radicalisation Programme of the SPF has allocated £5.4 million for projects in Afghanistan for 2009-10.