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Written question asked by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Tuesday, 20 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 26 October 2009. It was answered by Ivan Lewis (Labour) on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Counter-Terrorism: International Cooperation

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much of the $750 million pledged by the UK to the Global Threat Reduction Strategy under the Global Partnership has been spent; and what the budget allocation is for each year up to 2012, broken down by project.
Answer

[holding answer 26 October 2009]: As detailed in the published Sixth Annual Report of the Global Threat Reduction Programme (GTRP) (2008), of the $750 million pledged by the UK in 2002 to the Global Partnership fund, £270 million had been spent by the end of 2008. Figures for 2009 will be published in the 2009 annual report. At the last comprehensive spending review, the GTRP budget was set at £36.5 million per annum for the three years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.In a speech earlier this year, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister stated that funding would remain at this level for 'the foreseeable future'. A breakdown of expenditure to the end of 2008 in the key project areas, also detailed in the Sixth Annual Report, is set out in the following table. An update of spending by project will be provided in the 2009 annual report. The GTRP Ministerial Oversight Board meeting in November is scheduled to approve budget allocations for future years.

Project £ million
Chernobyl Shelter Project 36.668
Nuclear Safety Programme 23.256
Physical Protection of Proliferation of Sensitive Nuclear Materials 25.161
Decommissioning in CEE/FSU 7.86
Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership 28.28
North West Russia 97.088
KEDO 4.44
UK Support for Decommissioning BN350 Reactor, Aktau, Kazakhstan 5.736
Social and Economic Consequences of Nuclear Power Plant Closure 4.234
Information Dissemination and Programme Publicity 0.295
Plutonium Reactor Closure Project 10.93
Chemical Weapon Projects at Shchuch'ye 16.20
Contractor Project Management and Set-up Cost 2.62
Support to Green Cross Office, and Other Projects 0.64
Biological Projects 2.04
C WD Project Management and Support 3.38
Biological Project Management and Support 1.41
Global Threat Reduction Programme Expenditure total 270.238

The full report is available to download at:"http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/nuclear/nonprolif/global_threat/annual_report/annual_report.aspx"

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
498 c379-80W; 295334
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Counter-terrorism International cooperation
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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