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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the support currently provided by his Department for (a) police and (b) military forces, broken down by country. [40613] Mr. Tony Lloyd: FCO support for the police and the military in FY 1997/98 under the United Kingdom Military Training Assistance Scheme (UKMTAS) and through other programme budgets is as listed. The list shows support for personnel of other countries attending training courses in the UK and countries to which UK training teams or loan service personnel were deployed. For 1998/99 the UKMTAS programme has been replaced by Assistance to Support Stability with In-Service Training (ASSIST), on which I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave to the hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) on 26 March 1998, Official Report, columns 235-36. 1997/98 FCO spending in support of the police _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Country £ Albania 750,000 Anguilla 2,245 Antigua 8,614 Bahamas 2,617 Bangladesh 6,483 Barbados 18,016 Belize 12,161 Bosnia 9,627 Botswana 41,457 British Virgin Islands 1,604 Bulgaria 9,589 Chile 43,555 China 13,379 Colombia 42,240 Costa Rica 14,448 Croatia 91 Cyprus 37,449 Czech Republic 3,950 Estonia 400 Fiji 26,181 Ghana 4,953 Gibraltar 86,451 Grenada 7,386 Guyana 121 Hungary 1,319 India 21,948 Jamaica 10,860 Kenya 1,604 Lebanon 25,644 Lesotho 14,445 Malaysia 7,717 Malta 11,196 Mauritius 15,536 Mongolia 715 Montserrat 2,180 Morocco 23,120 Mozambique 502 Namibia 1,604 Pakistan 2,949 Papua New Guinea 28,089 Paraguay 27,267 Peru 4,255 Philippines 43,258 Poland 7,860 St. Kitts 1,604 St. Vincent 1,604 Seychelles 8,774 Sierra Leone 3,426 Singapore 6,698 Solomon Islands 17,851 South Africa 25,209 Sri Lanka 11,251 Tanzania 6,870 Trinidad 18,449 Turks and Caicos Islands 8,212 Uganda 22,461 Uruguay 16,170 Vanuatu 14,236 Zambia 14,153 Zimbabwe 7,902 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997/98: FCO spending in support of the military _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Country £ Angola 207,650 Antigua 34,409 Argentina 18,344 Bahamas 52,528 Bangladesh 268,090 Barbados + BMATT E. Caribbean{1} 1,145,316 Belarus 26,170 Belize + BELDA{2} 665,365 Botswana 176,174 Brazil 36,438 British Virgin Islands 236,122 Bulgaria 89,541 Chile 41,365 China 52,353 Colombia 719,814 Costa Rica 1,276 Croatia 2,351 Czech Republic 222,961 Ecuador 5,188 Egypt 56,186 El Salvador 1,324 Estonia 16,232 Ethiopia 115,488 Fiji 107,104 Ghana 1,100,497 Georgia 61,741 Grenada 28,681 Guatemala 97,200 Guyana 96,647 Honduras 734 Hungary 341,016 India 306,416 Indonesia 225,612 Ireland 180,907 Israel 1,302 Jamaica 218,757 Jordan 329,425 Kazakhstan 904 Kenya 157,108 Latvia 86,954 Lebanon 30,880 Lesotho 31,998 Lithuania 63,259 Macedonia 34,894 Malawi 186,011 Malaysia 373,796 Malta 80,032 Mauritius 212,339 Moldova 21,259 Montserrat 567 Morocco 84,211 Mozambique 93,410 Namibia 216,182 Nepal 98,364 Pakistan 826,730 Papua New Guinea 49,432 Paraguay 37,309 Philippines 74,075 Poland 336,323 Romania 149,335 Russia 33,544 Senegal 14,661 Seychelles 47,990 Sierra Leone 114,523 Singapore 47,140 Slovakia 147,374 Slovenia 110,175 South Africa 1,369,126 Sri Lanka 90,216 St. Lucia 7,839 St. Vincent 2,725 Tanzania 118,592 Thailand 268,249 Trinidad and Tobago 117,331 Turks and Caicos Islands 279,963 Uganda 2,462 Ukraine 358,814 Uruguay 33,571 Yemen 18,331 Zambia 25,736 Zimbabwe inc. MBATT 2,235,784 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} BMATT = British Military Assistance and Training Team {2} BELDA = Belize Defence Assistance 1997/98: Contributions to international organisations _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ UN International Police Task Force (Bosnia) 2,200,000 UN Trust Fund for the Police Assistance Programme in Bosnia and 2,000,000 Herzegovina EU Caribbean Drugs Initiative 430,000 South Pacific Police Adviser's Budget 51,710 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

312 c520-2W; 40613

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Armed forces Contributions Expenditure Police Training United Kingdom Military aid ASSIST programme

Contains statistics

Yes