Departmental Funding (Central and Eastern Europe)

HC Deb 25 October 2000 vol 355 cc133-4W

9. Mr. Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on funding by her Department for the countries of central and eastern Europe. [132189]

Mr. Foulkes

Our financial support to countries in central eastern Europe last year was £150 million through the EC and £182 million in direct spending—over £100 million of which was humanitarian relief for Kosovo.

The purpose of our spending is to improve economic management and Government effectiveness in order to better the lives of the people, particularly the poorest.