§ Mr. GapesTo 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 FoxThe information is as follows:
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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.