§ Mr. BowisTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 16 July,Official Report, column 968, if he will give a breakdown of the £600,000 and £250,000 expenditure on disaster preparedness projects.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe breakdown of the £600,000 expenditure in financial year 1991–92 and the £250,000 commitment in financial year 1992–93 on disaster preparedness projects are provided in the tables:178W
Table 1 Expenditure, by project, on disaster preparedness in financial year 1991–92 Project Expenditure £ Field testing of "Permatents" 32,120 Development of guidelines for building improvement programmes in disaster prone areas 73,304 Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) disaster preparedness project 139,372 Training of senior Egyptian officials in the development of disaster preparedness 11,204 UNDP/UNDRO disaster management training programme 250,000 United Kingdom science, technology and engineering committee-fellowship of engineering 44,050 Research on Lake Nyos, Cameroon 3,897 Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Cholera Pandemic training 17,490 Funding of 2 Kashmir students training in earthquake preparedness 1,925 Support for UNDRO South Pacific programme office 28,571 Total expenditure 601,933
Table 2 Commitment, by project, on disaster preparedness in financial year 1992–1993 (as at 16 July 1992) Project Commitment £ Cranfield Disaster Preparedness Centre: Funding of pilot study for logistics training and management 28,396 Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd and the Disaster Management Centre of Oxford 88,075 Study into oil pollution preparedness in the Caribbean Dependant Territories 31,381 Research on Lake Nyos, Cameroon 804 Funding of Vietnamese Scholar at Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok 3,000 Study into Taal Volcano, Phillipines 4,000 DHA-UNDRO needs assessment consultancy into fire hazards in the Katmandu Valley 5,882 ICSU/WHO International Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Disasters, Beijing 5,730 Regional Disaster Preparedness-ITDG, Peru 50,000 Field testing of "Permatents" 19,200 Cranfield Disaster Preparedness Centre consultancy to NIRD India 6,600 Funding for Anguillan and Lesothoan participants at Cranfield Disaster Preparedness Course 13,500 Total Commitment 256,568