HC Deb 01 June 1998 vol 313 c38W
Sir Alastair Goodlad

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development for which UN agencies her Department's financial contribution will be less in 1998–99 than in 1997–98; and in each case by how much. [43127]

Clare Short

Total contributions, covering both core and extra-budgetary funding, to UN agencies for 1998/99 will not be known until the end of the financial year. Overall, DFID' s core contributions to voluntary funded UN agencies have increased in 1998/99 over 1997/98.