HC Deb 01 July 2002 vol 388 cc147-8W
Jeremy Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support has been given in each of the past five years to the refugee camps of the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara. [64860]

Clare Short

Our support to the refugees from the Western Sahara is mostly channelled through the European Commission's Humanitarian aid Office (ECHO).

Total ECHO assistance to Sahrawi refugees in the Western Sahara
Euro 000
1997 7,000
1998 17,200
1999 7,500
2000 13,935
2001 15,570

Source:

ECHO Global Plan 2002.

Community prescribing by: Structured:
Average waiting time (weeks) by drug action team area In-patient detoxification Specialist GPs Counselling Day care Residential rehabilitation
Sunderland 1 5 1 6 2 2
Manchester 26 4 2 4 4 4
Birmingham 24 24 8 8 1 4
Teesside
Middlesbrough 0 6 4 0 1 2
Hartlepool 12 10 1 1 0 12
Stockton 7 20 1 0 0 7
Central London
Camden 5 42 8 3 8 8
City of London 6 23 6 4 1 3
Hackney 4 23 2 2 2 4
Islington 5 41 8 11 7 21
Lambeth 28 25 2 1 8 4
Lewisham 22 5 4 3 8 1
Southwark 29 25 4 3 8 12
Tower Hamlets 10 12 6 6 2 14
Waltham Forest 6 3 1 0 0 0
Wandsworth 10 2 0 0 4 4
1Information not supplied

Approximately 19 per cent. of this support is attributable to contributions from the UK.

We also contribute to the budgets of UNHCR and WFP who cooperate closely with ECHO in providing support to the Sahrawi refugees. In addition in 1997–98 we provided £79,000 in direct humanitarian assistance.

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