HC Deb 15 October 1990 vol 177 cc712-3W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer from which budget headings the expenditure now being undertaken in the middle east, arising out of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, is to be drawn; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Norman Lamont

Most of the present expenditure in the middle east arising from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait falls to the defence budget. Assistance to refugees displaced by the invasion is being drawn from the aid budget.

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