HC Deb 30 January 1992 vol 202 cc650-1W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much Britain contributed financially to(a) International Labour Organisation, (b) Food and Agriculture Organisation, (c) International Food and Agriculture Development, (d) United Nations Development Programme, (e) World Food Programme, (f) UNICEF, (g) United Nations High Commission for Refugees, (h) United Nations Food for Population Articles and (i) United Nations Environment Programme, in cash and real terms for each year since 1979.

Mrs. Chalker

Contributions were as follows, using Her Majesty's Treasury's GDP deflator for the real terms data:

United Kingdom contributions to multilateral agencies 1979–90 in cash terms
£ thousands
Organisations 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
International Labour Organisation 2,181 2,800 1,904 2,963 3,749 4,059 4,668 3,918 3,813 4,218 5,574 5,832
Food and Agriculture Organisation 2,482 3,217 3,616 5,592 6,195 8,153 6,779 7,358 5,760 8,518 8,611 9,626
International Fund for Agricultural Development 881 2,110 3,552 4,243 5,450 3,509 3,280 2,564 3,213 2,625
United Nations Development Programme 28,533 15,000 17,500 18,500 18,500 19,000 21,000 21,000 23,000 24,500 26,001 27,114
World Food Programme1 7,017 2,488 1,853 3,392 828 1,039 500 500 10,392 4,542 15,674 4,030
United Nations Children's 7,382 4,991 7,356 5,983 6,069 6,025 8,400 8,308 12,000 12,223 12,200 9,285
United Nations High Commission for Refugees 8,987 6,974 5,857 6,235 3,720 7,095 16,860 14,020 14,800 19,470 19,316 19,495
United Nations Fund for Population Activities 3,875 2,000 2,250 2,650 2,700 3,000 4,500 4,500 5,000 5,250 5,500 3,000
United Nations Environment Programme 599 593 600 600 750 750 750 1,000 1,000 1,250 3,000 3,000
1 Contributions to the World Food Programme include subscription payments, commodity purchase and, from 1987, food aid. Prior to 1987 the food aid channelled through WFP could not be distinguished from other food aid, and therefore is not included in this table.