HC Deb 05 May 1988 vol 132 cc580-2W
Mr. Harry Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will list in theOfficial Report the intergovernmental organisations. excluding the European Communities, of which the United Kingdom is a member, the amount of the United Kingdom's annual contribution to each organisation, the percentage of each organisation's budget which this represents and which Government Department accounts for each contribution.

Mr. Eggar

[pursuant to his reply, 29 April 1988, c. 312]: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office holds no complete record of the intergovernmental organisations of which the United Kingdom is a member. The 1988–89 provision and United Kingdom percentage contribution to the organisations for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office pays the British subscriptions are set out in the following table:

Organisation 1988–89 Provision £000 United Kingdom Percentage Contribution
Subscriptions Paid from Class II, Vote 2, Other External Relations
UN Regular Budget 21,929 4.860
Commonwealth Secretariat 2,123 30.000
Organisation 1988–89 Provision £000 United Kingdom Percentage Contribution
Council of Europe: General Expenses 7,149 16.710
Council of Europe: Buildings 361 17.700
Council of Europe: European Youth Foundation 181 18.500
Western European Union 1,409 20.000
Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development 4,442 6.930
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Civil Budget 12,833 18.820
NATO: International Staff Secretariat 144 19.990
South Pacific Commission 330 12.176
Commonwealth Foundation 483 30.000
Co-ordinating Committee, Paris 109 10.250
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law 48 8.430
International Exhibitions Bureau 7 5.210
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2 4.430
Permanent Court of Arbitration 7 6.660
Commission for the Conservation of 19 4.940
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Subscriptions Paid from Class II, Vote 5, Overseas Aid
International Development Association 168,900 16.700
International Finance Corporation 3,526 26.960
Asian Development Bank: 703 22.250
Capital Subscription
Asian Development Fund 12,500 23.800
African Development Bank: 1,541 21.390
Captial Subscription
African Development Fund 8,500 13.030
Inter-American Development Bank: 1,776 20.980
Capital Subscription
Fund for Special Operations 7,842 13.460
Caribbean Development Bank: Capital Subscription 334 212.900
Special Development Fund 1,618 112.650
International Fund for Agricultural Development 4,992 34.790
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency — 4—
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Capital Subscription — 5—
UN Development Programme (UNDP) 613,000 n/a
UN Children's Fund 7,500 n/a
Food and Agricultural Organisation 8,424 75.830
UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) 1,624 74.820
UN Education and Training Programme for Southern Africa 50 n/a
UN Development Fund for Women 50 n/a
UNIDO Industrial Development Fund 600 n/a
International Atomic Energy Agency 500 n/a
UN Centre for Human Settlements 70 n/a
Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-Operation 7,500 30.000
Commonwealth Youth Programme 465 30.000
Commonwealth Media Development Fund 150 n/a
Commonwealth Secretariat—Nassau Fellowship 50 n/a
Commonwealth Science Council 159 29.000
UN Fund for Population Activities 5,250 n/a
International Planned Parenthood Federation 6,750 n/a
Organisation 1988–89 Provision £000 United Kingdom Percentage Contribution
World Health Organisation (WHO): Special Programme for Prevention and Control of AIDS 6,000 n/a
WHO Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction 2,200 n/a
WHO Onchocerciasis Control Programme 750 n/a
UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases 650 n/a
WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs and Vaccines 450 n/a
WHO Diarrhoeal Disease Control Programme 350 n/a
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research 150 n/a
Pan American Health Organisation: Caribbean Epidemiology Centre 75 n/a
WHO Cold Chain Support Unit 64 n/a
Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) 226 6.950
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome 69 n/a
UN High Commissioner for Refugees 3,500 1.670
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 5,250 4.570
1 Share of last approved replenishment.
2 Share of capital stock.
3 Share of the OECD contributors' total.
4 £2.8 million approx. being 4.86 per cent. of total subscription.
5 A General Capital Increase is expected to be approved shortly by the Bank's Governors. The United Kingdom intends to subscribe, subject to Parliamentary approval; our share will be 4.955 per cent.
6 Total for 1988 £24.5 million.
7 Assessed contribution level.
n/a = 1988 budget not yet available.