HC Deb 23 November 1999 vol 339 c68W
Dr. Tonge

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the projects her Department supports which focus on conflict prevention in Kenya. [99236]

Clare Short

My Department supports the projects listed in the following table:

75,000 have been repatriated. The refugees' return home continues to be hampered by the presence of militia who intimidate, physically harass and exact payment from refugees in camps and at border crossing points.

The UK has pressed the Indonesian government to ensure that the refugees are allowed to return home. My Department has committed £5.5 million for immediate humanitarian assistance for Timor, of which over £700,000 has been allocated to the International Organisation for Migration to facilitate refugee return.

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