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answer text: Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the timescale for the allocation of the money givento her Department by the Treasury for Iraq; and what this money is being spent on. [108884]Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list, by sector, her Department's (a)bilateral and (b) multilateral funding of development aid for Iraqi citizens in the current financial year. [109117]Clare Short: Total DFID funds earmarked for humanitarian work in the current crisis are £210 million. £90 million of this is fromDFID budgets, and £120 million is from the Treasury Central Reserve. Of this, DFID has committed £115 million to support work byhumanitarian agencies in the current crisis and has £95 million set aside for further contributions. In addition, the Chancellorannounced on 9 April that he would set aside a further £60 million for DFID to claim from the Treasury if and when needs arise.The £115 million was committed as follows: £65 million on 28 March to the UN flash appeal; £32 million to the Red Cross/Red Crescentmovement in March, to fund preparedness and relief activities in Iraq and neighbouring countries; £8 million to the World FoodProgramme (£1 million February, £1 million early March with a further £6 million mid-March) to pre-position and distribute food; £2million to UNICEF (£1 million February, £1 million March), to assist with the pre-positioning and distribution of health kits, waterpurification units and other supplies; £1.75 million to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (£0.75 million February and £1million March) to aid the supply of winter kits for 350,000, and the procuring of kits for a further 600,000; £1 million to theWorld Health Organisation (£0.5 million February and £0.5 million March) for procuring, positioning and distributing emergencyhealth kits; £150,000 in February to Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the deployment of co-ordinat…
answer given date: 2003-04-14+01:00
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