HC Deb 29 January 1997 vol 289 cc254-5W
Mr. Gapes

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the recipient organisations and amounts they received from British Government sources in aid related to(a) infrastructure repair projects, (b) grants to UN agencies and the Red Cross and (c) grants to British and international non-governmental organisations in reconstruction assistance to Bosnia in each year since 1992. [12850]

Dr. Liam Fox

The information is as follows:

A) Infrastructure repair projects by financil year since 1992
£ million
1992–93
International Mining Consultants Ltd.
(IMCL)/Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) 0.258
1993–94
IMCL/NIE 5.985
ODA Emergency engineering Unit (EEU) 3.005
1994–95
International Management Group (IMG) 1.000
AMEC Gas 0.919
IMCL/NIE 4.038
EEU 4.911
IMG 2.230
AMEC Gas 0.731
European Union (Joint Action on Railways) 0.409
IMCL/NIE 0.301
EEU 5.237
1996–97
IMG 0.327
AMEC Sarajevo Gas 0.850
NIE/IMCL 0.108
EU 9.792
Crown Agents-telecoms 0.418
ODA/British forces projects 3.503
B) Support to UN agencies, other international agencies and the Red Cross movement, by financial year
£ million
1992–93
UNHCR 7.500
UNICEF 1.000
WHO 0.425
IOM 0.349
Red Cross 3.000
1993–94
UNHCR 11.00
UNICEF 2.000
WHO 5.544
WFP 2.500
Red Cross 2.110
1994–95
UNICEF 1.000
WHO 1.525
IOM 0.107
WFP 1.500
Red Cross 0.540
1995–96
UNHCR 6.000
WHO 2.040
IOM 0.195
WFP 2.000
FAO 0.600
Red Cross 4.020
1996–97
UNHCR 5.000
WHO 0.206
IOM 0.052
Red Cross 0.230

ODA has also provided in-kind support to UNHCR (equipment, seconded staff, logistical support, Sarajevo airlift, convoys) to the value of £54.3 million over this period, and £1.94 million in seconded staff and logistics support to WHO.

C) As it runs its own emergency Engineering Unit in Bosnia, the British Government has not normally channelled physical reconstruction assistance to the former Yugoslavia through British and international non-governmental organisations. In financial year 1994–95 £200,000 was granted to Scottish European Aid and £50,000 to the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford for reconstruction projects. NGOs have been supported to a total of £10.3 million since 1992 for social, medical and other programmes.