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Conflict Prevention

Volume 492: debated on Thursday 14 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 2 April 2009, Official Report, column 1311W, on conflict prevention, how much of the increase of £152.7 million in the UK's assessed peacekeeping costs for 2009-10 is to be spent (a) in each country and (b) on each mission; and what the reasons are for the increase. (270551)

We have earmarked £456 million for assessed costs in 2009-10. This remains a projection as, in particular, UN peacekeeping costs are still to be negotiated by the UN General Assembly for 2009-10, and future UN peacekeeping activity remains subject to decisions by the UN Security Council. We cannot provide an accurate figure for the additional costs broken down by mission until the budgets for each of the missions are agreed and payments made.

The UN publishes budget proposals for each mission on its official document system on the UN website. These can be accessed by searching for the relevant mission at:

http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E

We expect UN Fifth Committee negotiations to be completed by early to mid June 2009.