§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those international organisations to which the United Kingdom is affiliated which grant or lend money, giving the United Kingdom's latest annual contributions where applicable in each case.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe international organisations and the United Kingdom contributions paid for from the overseas aid programme showing the amounts paid in 1988 (the latest year for which full data are available), are as follows:
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United Kingdom contribution in 1988 Organisation £'000 UN Agencies1 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 2,564 UN Development Programme (UNDP) 24,500 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) General Programme 3,750 UNICEF Special Appeals 8,473 UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) 5,250 UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) 3,500 UNHCR (Special Appeals) 15,970 UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) 2,804 UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) 5,250 World Food Programme (WFP) 4,856 World Health Organisation (WHO) Research Programmes 11,407 Other UN development agencies 2,561 World Bank Group International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) 6,561 International Development Association (IDA) 207,000 International Finance Corporation (IFC) 3,558 Regional Development Banks African Development Bank 329 African Development Fund 6,374 Asian Development Bank 1,172 Asian Development Fund 13,045 Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) 200 CDB Special Development Fund 3,517 Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) 1,491 IADB Fund for Special Operations 3,002 International Monetary Fund2 Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility 8,500 European Community3 European Development Fund 119,004
Organisation £'000 International research organisations Agricultural and medical research 6,915 Other international organizations4 9,772 1 Excludes UN bodies whose activities benefit both developing and developed countries and where United Kingdom subscriptions relate only partly to developmental activities. 2 Contributions to the IMF's general resources account form part of the United Kingdom reserves. 3 Excludes overseas aid paid for from the EC budget and from European Investment Bank's own resources. 4 Includes such Commonwealth programmes as the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation and Commonwealth Youth Programme; and contributions to South Pacific Commission. Source: British Aid Statistics 1984–1988, Table 8 (a copy of which is in the Library of the House).