HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 cc423-4W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent reports she has received for assistance for containing radioactive floodwaters in Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan; and how she proposes to respond to them. [61860]

Clare Short

No reports have been received, but my Officials have recently obtained a World Bank commissioned technical assessment on landslide and

My Department spent approximately £206 million on sexual and reproductive health in financial year 2001–02. My Department's expenditure on this project in that year therefore represents less than 0.07 per cent. of annual expenditure. The RFPA is a non-governmental organisation, based in Moscow. My Department reviewed this project in January 2002 and concluded that its purpose was likely to be largely achieved. No further assistance to the RFPA is planned.

Angus Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her answer of 25 February 2002,Official Report, columns 883–886W, how much money her Department has given to the (a) health and sexual education programme in Bolivia since 1997 and (b) Orissa Reproductive Health Project in India in each year since 1997; what these amounts represent in percentage terms of her Department's per annum expenditure for population reproductive health programmes; and if she will make a statement. [73172]

Clare Short

My Department has spent the following amounts on each project listed since 1997. Expenditure has also been expressed as a percentage of DFID' s annual spend on sexual and reproductive health activities in each year;

these amounts represent in percentage terms of her Department's per annum expenditure for population reproductive health programmes; and if she will make a statement. [73184]

Clare Short

My Department has spent the following amounts on each of the programmes listed since 1997. Expenditure has also been expressed as a percentage of DFID's annual spend on sexual and reproductive health activities in each year;

uranium tailings problems and options for remediation in Kyrgyzstan. My Department has not been asked to respond to the technical assessment.

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