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Mr. Chris Patten
In the financial year 1986–87, the latest for which figures are available, the £6.4 million saved by our withdrawal from UNESCO was reallocated in full to aid projects, as shown in the following table.
| Re-Allocation of 1986/87 UNESCO Savings |
| Final Expenditure 1986/87 |
|
£ |
£ |
|
Committed |
Spent |
| 1. ODA Technical Co-operation Training Programme |
| Country— |
| Botswana |
300,000 |
203,370 |
| Mauritius |
150,000 |
— |
| Swaziland |
150,000 |
43,378 |
| Gambia |
40,000 |
40,000 |
| Ghana |
150,000 |
150,000 |
| Kenya |
200,000 |
200,000 |
| Nigeria |
75,000 |
75,000 |
| Sierra Leone |
55,000 |
55,000 |
| Tanzania |
80,000 |
80,000 |
| Sri Lanka |
100,000 |
100,000 |
| Maldives |
50,000 |
50,000 |
| Cyprus |
17,000 |
— |
| Caribbean Commonwealth |
100,000 |
100,000 |
| Fiji, Tonga, Solomons, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu |
52,000 |
52,000 |
|
1,519,000 |
1,148,748 |
| British Council Aid Administration Charges |
353,000 |
266,510 |
| Total |
£1,872,000 |
£1,415,258 |
| 2. English Language Training Courses |
| Country— |
| Senegal |
46,000 |
46,000 |
| Ivory Coast |
10,000 |
10,000 |
| Guinea |
30,000 |
30,000 |
| Mali |
30,000 |
30,000 |
| Benin |
32,000 |
32,000 |
| Niger |
30,000 |
30,000 |
| Cameroon |
50,000 |
50,000 |
| Morocco |
66,000 |
66,000 |
| Mauritius |
40,000 |
28,000 |
| Madagascar |
40,000 |
40,000 |
| Mozambique |
40,000 |
40,000 |
| Djibouti |
75,000 |
— |
| Bangladesh |
150,000 |
112,173 |
| Burma |
50,000 |
50,000 |
|
689,000 |
564,173 |
| British Council Aid Administration Charges |
110,000 |
90,268 |
| Total |
799,000 |
654,441 |
| 3. ODA Shared Scholarship Scheme |
300,000 |
300,000 |
623W
|
£ |
£ |
|
Committed |
Spent |
| 4. Foreign and Commonwealth |
| Office Scholarships and Awards Schemes |
600,000 |
600,000 |
| 5. ODA Cultural Projects International Centre for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property: Training course for African museum conservators |
|
100,000 |
100,000 |
| 6. PES transfer to FCO for cultural projects: |
| Visiting Arts |
|
|
| Heritage Trust |
|
|
| Arts Council |
|
|
| Latin American Arts Association |
|
|
| European Youth Theatre |
|
|
| Encounter |
100,000 |
100,000 |
| 7. Chinese student scholarships in United Kingdom |
950,000 |
— |
| 8. Distance learning project in Commonwealth countries |
100,000 |
100,000 |
| 9. Nassau fellowships |
500,000 |
370,853 |
| 10. Commonwealth Media Development Fund |
100,000 |
100,000 |
| 11. Royal Society |
| i. International Geological Correlation Programme |
23,400 |
— |
| ii. International Council of Scientific Unions |
17,900 |
— |
| iii. International Centre for Theoretical Physics |
15,500 |
— |
| iv. Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research |
9,000 |
— |
| v. Commission for the Geological Map of The World |
3,900 |
— |
| vi. International Brain Research Organisation |
1,600 |
— |
| vii. International Cell Research Organisation |
3,800 |
— |
| viii. International Union of Microbiological Sciences |
2,000 |
— |
| ix. International Union of Geological Sciences |
1,400 |
— |
| x. International Union for Conservation of Nature |
2,700 |
— |
| xi. International Federation of Automatic Control |
9,300 |
— |
| xii. International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics |
1,900 |
— |
| xiii. World Federation of Engineering Organisations |
3,400 |
— |
|
95,800 |
— |
| Royal Society charges |
9,580 |
— |
| Total |
105,380 |
105,380 |
| 12. Research in Arid Commonwealth Africa |
400,000 |
400,000 |
| 13. Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission |
96,000 |
96,000 |
| 14. Man and the Biosphere/International Hydrological Programme/International Association of Hydrological Sciences |
189,000 |
189,000 |
624W
|
£ |
£ |
|
Committed |
Spent |
| 15. Dissemination of results of research |
200,000 |
170,000 |
| Grand Total items 1–15 = |
£6,411,380 |
1£4,700,932 |
|
|
(73.32%) |
| 1 Full use of the total amount was not possible because of the late start on the allocations following announcement of the programmi: in mid-April. |