HC Deb 20 February 1989 vol 147 cc448-9W
Mr. Canavan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make an up-to-date statement giving a breakdown, by project, of the resources reallocated to development projects resulting from the savings arising from the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Mr. Eggar

In the financial year 1987–88 the money saved by our withdrawal from UNESCO was re-allocated and spent as follows:

Re-allocation of UNESCO savings final expenditure 1987–88
£

Committed

£

Spent

Overseas Development Administration(ODA) technical co-operation training programme 1,872,000 1,772,848
English language training courses 799,000 600,300
ODA shared scholarship schemes 320,000 320,000
Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) scholarships and awards scheme 640,000 640,000
ODA cultural projects 100,000 100,000
Public expenditure survey transfer to FCO for cultural projects 100,000 100,000
Chinese student scholarships in the United Kingdom 950,000 950,000
Distance learning project in Commonwealth countries 100,000 100,000
Nassau fellowships 500,000 650,131
Commonwealth media development fund 150,000 150,000
Royal Society 112,000 112,000
Research in arid Commonwealth Africa 300,000 300,000
Inter-governmental Oceanographic Commission 96,000 80,864
Man and the Biosphere/International Hydrological Programme/ International Association of Hydrological Sciences 200,000 200,000
Dissemination of results of research 200,000 200,000

£

Committed

£

Spent

Total 6,439,000 6,276,143

Allocations for this financial year are similar.

Mr. Canavan

To ask the Secretary for State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was done with the £1,710,448 committed but not spent as referred to in his reply to the hon. Member for Falkirk, West on 29 July 1988,Official Report, columns 624–26, on savings arising from the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Mr. Eggar

Underspending in the year in question permitted expenditure on other aid programmes. The cash limit for the year was virtually fully spent. It is not practical to identify the specific use to which these rather than other savings were put.

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