§ Mr. Brightasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how he proposes to allocate the £6.4 million saved in the financial year 1986–87 by the withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation by the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. RaisonI intend to allocate the following amounts to the programmes mentioned in my reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) on 19 December 1985, at column 241:
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£ million Additional allocations to the ODA Technical Cooperation Training Programmes 2.3 Joint scheme to provide scholarships in the United Kingdom for Chinese students 0.7 Additional allocation to the ODA Shared Scholarship Scheme 0.3 Key English Language Teaching programme, particularly in francophone Africa 0.6 Exploratory work on a distance learning programme among academic institutions in the Commonwealth 0.1 A training scheme for black South Africans at Post- graduate level 0.5 A contribution to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarships and Awards Scheme 0.6 Participation in the Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Commission, the International Geological Correlation Programme and for contributions to the International Council for Scientific Unions 0.2 International Hydrology and Environmental Sciences through the Natural Environment Research Council 0.2 Research in arid Commonwealth Africa 0.4 Dissemination of results of research at Universities and other bodies 0.2 An increased grant to the Commonwealth Media Development Fund 0.1 The British Council will have a major role in the operation of a number of these programmes.
I also propose to allocate £0.2 million for projects in the cultural field, of which half would be spent through the aid programme on projects for the benefit of developing countries, and half would be transferred to the diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for projects in the cultural heritage field which are not suitable for aid programme funding.
Estimates provision will be sought at the appropriate time.