§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many of the professionals in the Special Procedures Section of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights are on short-term temporary contracts, and how many of them have received their salary payments up to date.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThere are 11 professional staff and three Associated Experts employed in the Special Procedures Section of the Centre for Human Rights. Of the professional staff, eight are on temporary contracts. We have no information on their salary payments.
§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will publish a table giving the number of professionals employed in the Special Procedures Section of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in each of the years from 1985 onwards; the percentage of the United Nations budget allocated to the Centre in each of those years; the number of mandates emanating from the 40WA Commission on Human Rights in each of those years, and the actual amount spent by the Centre in each of those years.
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyThe precise information requested is not centrally recorded and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Some information on the levels of staffing, mandates and workload of the UN Centre for Human Rights since 1985 can be found in United Nations Document A/CONF.157/PC/60/ADD.7, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Figures for the budget allocated specifically to the Centre for Human Rights, and for the centre's actual expenditure, can only be provided at disproportionate cost. The budget allocated to the overall human rights programme since 1986, and these figures as a percentage of the total UN regular budget, are as follows:
$ Allocated to human rights programme Percentage of total regular budget 1986–87 9,776,800 0.56 1988–89 17,008,800 0.96 1990–91 17,387,700 0.88 1992–93 24,217,000 1.03