To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 201), how much of the unallocated provision in the Department for International Development's budget for 2007–08 was spent by the end of the year. [HL2232]

The Department for International Development's Resource DEL departmental unallocated provision (DUP) for 2007-08 was fully allocated to programmes by the end of the year. The underspend against total resource DEL for 2007-08 was £85,191,000, representing 1.9 per cent of the resource DEL budget of £4,563,685,000.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 201), what are the sporting activities linked to the London Olympic Games; in which countries the £650,000 to support the International Inspiration programme will be used; and which projects it will fund; and [HL2233]

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer to HL1589 by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 201), why activities to increase participant interest in developing countries are being administered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. [HL2234]

International Inspiration is delivered in partnership by UK Sport, British Council and UNICEF UK with the support of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, the British Olympic Foundation and the British Paralympic Association. International Inspiration was launched by the Prime Minister in January 2008.

So far £23.79 million has been committed to the International Inspiration programme. This includes a commitment from the British Council to match fund future income up to a total of £10.46 million. Funding has also been committed by DCMS (£0.28 million), DfID (£7.4 million), the Premier League (£4.2 million) and UNICEF UK (£1.45 million). Of this, £7.8 million is attributable to programme costs since the start of the programme in October 2007. In addition, UK Sport is committing in the region of £2.1 million as value in kind over the lifetime of the programme to 2013-14.

The Department for International Development has provided £1.65 million funding for the financial year 2008-09 as part of its overall contribution of £7.4 million to the International Inspiration programme. The Government Olympic Executive, part of the Department for Culture Media and Sport, is responsible for the programme.

The countries supported by the programme in 2008-09 were Azerbaijan, Brazil, India, Palau and Zambia. The programme will be rolled out to five further countries, Bangladesh, Ghana, Jordan, Mozambique and Trinidad and Tobago, starting in 2009-10.

The projects supported by this funding will help children and young people in developing countries take part in high quality PE and sport through:

training for teachers, teacher trainers, sport coaches, community coaches, activists, volunteers, officials and young leaders to deliver high-quality and inclusive PE, sport and play activities linked to development of life skills for children and young people in schools and communities;

support for grassroots sport and play programmes aimed at increasing participation and addressing social and community development issues such as HIV/AIDS education and girls’ empowerment;

engagement with policy-makers and key sport, education and social development officials in each country in a dialogue on the benefits of PE, sport and play as a tool to deliver existing youth, development and education policies.

The programme’s outcomes are intended to help support the achievement of millennium development goals, specifically those in primary education, the promotion of gender equality and empowering equality and achieving health objectives, in particular towards combating HIV and AIDS. International Inspiration seeks to support poverty reduction strategies in countries where sport has been identified as a key driver to help to achieve millennium development goals.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 202), what was the proportion contributed by the Department for International Development, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence in the conflict prevention pool for 2000–08; and what sums were transferred between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development for this purpose at this time last year. [HL2311]

Details of transfers undertaken in the Spring Supplementary Estimates (SSEs) 2007-08 relating to the conflict pools are available in the published SSEs of the respective departments.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 202), whether Returns and Repatriation count as Overseas Development Aid; whether the Department for International Development has funded any of this in previous years; and, if not, whose budget it came from. [HL2312]

Most of the projects funded by the Returns and Reintegration Fund do not count as Official Development Assistance (ODA).

The Returns and Reintegration Fund was launched in April 2008 to which the Department for International Development contributed a total of £5 million in 2008-09.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 203), what funds were transferred from the Ministry of Defence or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the Department for International Development in (a) 2008–09, and (b) 2007–08; whether any transfers are planned for 2009–10; and what funds were transferred from the Department for International Development to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence during those periods. [HL2313]

The following budget transfers took place from/to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to/from the Department for International Development (DfID) during

(a) 2008-09

from MoD to DfID—£1,970,000;

from FCO to DfID—£1,654,000;

from DfID to MoD—£47,807,000; and

from DfID to FCO—£37,413,000.

(b) 2007-08

from MoD to DfID—nil;

from FCO to DfID—£18,180,000;

from DfID to MoD—£29,292,000; and

from DfID to FCO—£12,423,000.

Some transfers are planned for 2009-10 from DfID to the FCO and MoD to allocate funds for the Conflict Prevention Pool; the final amounts are not yet known.

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Tunnicliffe on 9 March (WA 203), by how much the United Kingdom's Overseas Development Allowance GNI ratio will change; what it was in 2008; what it is projected to be in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010; and what it will be now. [HL2314]

The budget transfers to other government departments in the Department for International Development's Spring Supplementary Estimate 2008-09 will reduce the United Kingdom's official development assistance to GNI ratio (ODA/GNI) by a maximum of 0.002 per cent. The ODA/GNI ratio in 2008 was 0.43 per cent, and was projected in the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 to be 0.48 per cent in 2009 and 0.56 per cent in 2010.