HC Deb 29 November 1994 vol 250 cc575-6W
Sir John Stanley

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the European Union overseas aid schemes and European Union overseas aid budget headings under which United Kingdom governmental and non-governmental organisations can apply for European Union overseas aid funds, and the amount of European Union funding given to United Kingdom organisations under each European Union overseas aid scheme and under each European Union overseas aid budget heading in the last year for which figures are available.

Mr. Baldry

The main EC aid instruments, in all of which United Kingdom governmental and non-governmental organisations can participate, are as follows:

  • The Lomé Convention for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries;
  • The Asia and Latin America Programme;
  • The New Mediterranean Policy;
  • Phare (for eastern and central Europe);
  • Tacis (for the former Soviet Union);
  • The EC Food Aid Programme; and,
  • The EC Humanitarian Aid Programme.

My right hon. and noble Friend the Minister for Overseas Development will write to my hon. Friend once the data requested on funding for United Kingdom organisations have been prepared.

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