§ Lord Juddasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are their plans for the future of the Global Pool on Conflict Resolution; what proportion of the aid budget will be allocated to it in each of the next
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Total GCPP allocation (DfID/FCO/MoD) DfID GCPP expenditure Total DfID aid budget (Resource outturn) DfID GCPP expenditure as percentage of total DFID aid budget 2001–02 £60 million £6.7 million £3,137 million 0.22 per cent 2002–03 £68 million £13.8 million £3,596 million 0.38 per cent 2003–04 £74 million £25.5 million £3,742 million 0.69 per cent 2004–05 £74 million £21.5 million (forecast) £3,765 million (forecast) 0.57 percent. (forecast) 2005–06 £74 million £22 million (forecast) £4,536 million (forecast) 0.49 per cent. (forecast) 2006–07 £74 million £21 million (forecast) £5,030 million (forecast) 0.42 per cent. (forecast) 2007–08 £74 million £21 million (forecast) £5,324 million (forecast) 0.40 per cent. (forecast) five years; and how this compares with the proportions in each of the past five years. [HL513]
§ Baroness AmosA major external evaluation of the conflict prevention pools by Bradford University's Department of Peace Studies was completed in March 2004. The UK government response, published in July 2004, welcomed the evaluation's finding that the pools are effective and should be continued. It confirmed that conflict prevention continues to be a key part of the UK's international policy and that the conflict prevention pools will continue to promote inter-departmental policy-making, and support to HM Government's ongoing diplomatic activity, defence relations and development programmes.
The government response also set out a programme of work being taken forward to reinforce the pools ability to develop and deliver effective conflict prevention programmes. Full details of the UK government response to the evaluation of the conflict prevention pools is available at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/aboutdfid/performance/files/ev647.asp.
Global conflict prevention pool (GCPP) funds are voted specially by Parliament for conflict prevention and reduction, and are not a subset of the aid budget. Activity under the GCPP's component conflict prevention strategies is split fairly evenly between the three participating departments (DfID, FCO and MoD). However, funding is transferred according to which department will account for the expenditure and the FCO (for convenience, with its global network of posts) accounts for up to half of global pool expenditure. The GCPP was established in 2001, and the recent spending review (SR) 2004 provided allocation of funding for 2005–06 to 2007–08 (Please see the table below). Funding for the GCPP beyond 2007–08 will be determined by the next spending review in 2006.