§ Mr. Harold Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what it has cost officially in money and materials to Great Britain to help establish a nuclear centre in Bagdad mentioned in his address to the Bagdad Pact Council in Ankara in January, 1958.
Commander NobleFrom the establishment of the Bagdad Pact Nuclear Training Centre in Bagdad in January, 1957, up to date, but excluding some outstanding accounts not yet received, Her Majesty's Government contributed a total of seventy-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two pounds (£71,722). Of this sum twenty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-one pounds (£23,131) was for initial equipment and freight, twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-one pounds (£23,421) for the staff provided from the United Kingdom and twenty-five thousand one hundred and seventy pounds (£25,170) was our contribution towards the annual running expenses of the Centre, including the cost of certain training facilities in the United Kingdom and of replacement and supplementary equipment.