§ Mr. GalbraithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those international organisations on which his Department is represented and the total cost of those commitments.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe following sets out the international organisations to which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office paid subscriptions in the 1987–88 financial year. Total contributions paid by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to these organisations was £578,273,000.
Organisation 1987-88 outturn Subscriptions paid from class II, vote 2, other external relations
- UN Regular Budget and Peacekeeping Operations
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- Council of Europe: General Expenses
- Council of Europe: Buildings
- Council of Europe: European Youth Foundation
- Western European Union
435 - Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Civil Budget
- NATO: International Staff Secretariat
- South Pacific Commission
- Commonwealth Foundation
- Co-ordinating Committee, Paris
- International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
- International Exhibitions Bureau
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Permanent Court of Arbitration
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living
- Resources
- Universal Postal Union
- Subscriptions paid from class II, vote 5, overseas aid
- International Development Association
- International Finance Corporation
- Asian Development Bank:
- African Development Bank:
- Inter-American Development Bank:
- Caribbean Development Bank:
- International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Capital Subscription
- UN Development Programme (UNDP)
- UN Children's Fund
- Food and Agricultural Organisation
- UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
- UN Education and Training Programme for South Africa
- UN Development Fund for Women
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- UN Centre for Human Settlements
- Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
- Commonwealth Youth Programme
- Commonwealth Media Development Fund
- Commonwealth Secretariat—Nassau Fellowship
- Commonwealth Science Council
- UN Fund for Population Activities
- International Foundation for Science
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
- World Health Organisation (WHO): Special Programme
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
- Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- Colombo Plan Bureau
- European Development Fund
- European Community
- World Food Programme
- Food Aid Committee