HC Deb 13 February 1992 vol 203 c612W
Mr. Andrew Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what Her Majesty's Government's contribution will be to the SEPHA appeal for the Horn of Africa for the period February to July 1992.

Mrs. Chalker

I have this week approved a British contribution of £23 million to the appeal. The contribution is made up as follows:

£ million
Food Aid
(i) Ethiopia, including Eritrea 20,000 tonnes 112
(ii) Sudan 25,000 tonnes
Non-food Aid
(i) UNHCR activities in the Horn 5
(ii) British NGO humanitarian activities in the Horn 6
23
1 Approximate.

This pledge is additional to the £107 million, including 185,000 tonnes of food aid and our share of EC emergency aid, which we have committed for humanitarian relief in the Horn of Africa since the present crisis began in September 1990. The food aid total included £2.2 million for Somalia which I announced in January this year.