§ Mrs. SpelmanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list her Department's total spending on HIV/AIDS for each of the last five years and her forecast total spending on HIV/AIDS in each of the next three years. [47336]
§ Hilary BennThere is often no clear distinction between assisting with work on HIV/AIDS and other sexual and reproductive health issues. However, the following is my Department's total bilateral expenditure on reproductive health activities, including HIV/AIDS, from financial years 1997–98——2001–02:
- 1997–98 to £38.4 million
- 1998–99 to £45.0 million
- 1999–00 to £75.7 million
- 2000–01 to £124.9 million
- 2001–02 to £206.6 million.
We have also in this period provided funding to support the HIV/AIDS programmes of a number of multilateral organisations, including the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United 618W Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), the European Community (EC) and the World Bank. However, with the exception of UNAIDS it is not possible to determine the portion of our contributions used for HIV/AIDS work as opposed to the other work of these agencies.
We would expect that over the next three years our HIV/AIDS expenditure will increase above the present level.