§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the impact of reductions in the UN peacekeeping budget arising from diversion of funds to the regular UN budget. [29510]
§ Sir Nicholas BonsorThe practice of borrowing funds from UN peacekeeping budgets to meet cash shortfalls in the UN regular budget is a short-term measure. It does not result in any overall reduction of UN peacekeeping budgets. However, we oppose this on grounds of good practice.