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For the financial year 2010-11 my Department provided no assistance to the Governments of Israel or Egypt.The Prime Minister announced in May this year that the UK would provide £110 million to North African and Arab Spring countries, including Egypt, over the next four years, to support political and economic reform and transition in the middle east, including Egypt over the next four years. £90 million of this funding will come from my department with £20 million supplied by the FCO. Programming of this funding is currently under way and will support areas such as job creation, economic and social inclusion, political reform and free and fair elections across Arab Spring countries.My Department has no bilateral programme of assistance to Israel. In the financial year 2010-11 £500,000 of Conflict Pool funding was provided to Israeli NGOs working to address the causes of conflict and promote co-existence between Israel's Jewish and Arab populations and respect for human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. |