§ Mr. GardinerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what change there will be in his Department's funding for conflict resolution projects over the next five years; [149427]
(2) what assessment he has made of the amount of money spent by other Defence Departments in European countries on conflict resolution projects; [149451]
(3) how much his Department spent on conflict resolution projects in the latest year for which figures are available. [149541]
Mr. IngrainMinistry of Defence involvement in conflict resolution projects, as opposed to operations, is funded through the programme budgets of the United Kingdom's Global and Africa Conflict Prevention Pools. Pool funding levels for future years will be established during Spending Review 2004.
In Financial Year 2002–03, the Pools funded nearly £41 million of Ministry of Defence support to conflict prevention and conflict resolution projects. Further information on the conflict resolution work of the Ministry of Defence, together with that of the Foreign 1391W and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development, can be found in the Global Conflict Prevention Pool booklet, published on 9 September 2003.
The MOD has made no assessment of the amount of money spent by other Defence Departments in European countries on conflict resolution.