§ Mr. CanavanTo 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. EggarIn the financial year 1987–88 the money saved by our withdrawal from UNESCO was re-allocated and spent as follows:
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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. CanavanTo 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. EggarUnderspending 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.