HL Deb 25 March 1981 vol 418 cc1272-3WA
Lord Barnby

asked Her Majesty's Government:

For the last year for which figures are available, the total contributions under all heads by the United Kingdom to the United Nations, the total number of members in arrears, the amount of the longest default and the name of country concerned.

Lord Carrington

In 1980, the United Kingdom contributed 23,806,658 dollars (£10.2 million) to the United Nations' regular budget and 149,487,050 dollars (£63.9 million) to other funds and agencies in the United Nations system. According to United Nations document A/INF/35/3 of 10th October 1980, a copy of which has been placed in the Library, 80 member states were in arrears on 1st January 1980, the most recent date for which statistics are available. The longest default is that of a number of members who refused to contribute to the first United Nations Emergency Force in 1957. The largest of these was the Soviet Union in the amount of 2,050,676 dollars; the total default of the Soviet Union on 1st January 1980 was 34,927,289 dollars.