§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will break down by main category the[...]104.25 million classified as unallocated/unspecified in the financial tables on page 256 of the Annual Report 2003 from the European Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the EC Development Policy and the Implementation of External Assistance in 2002. [160717]
Mr. Gareth ThomasThe information requested is not available. Unallocated/unspecified ODA refers to expenditure that cannot easily be placed within a sector. This may be because a project covers a number of sectors and cannot easily be divided up between them or because expenditure does not fit within any sectoral definition.
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will break down by main category the 141.86 million euros of administrative costs of donors in the EU's Official Development Assistance in 2002, as referred to in the financial tables on page 256 of the Annual Report 2003 from the European 195W Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the EC Development Policy and the Implementation of External Assistance in 2002. [160718]
Mr. Gareth ThomasThe information requested is not available. Each year the Commission publishes details of its expenditure along with plans for the current year in the Official Journal in February. 'This includes details of "Expenditure on administrative management" for the budget lines along with the way in which the commission organises its expenditure. The commission does not routinely publish administrative expenditure by sector.