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Written question asked by Baroness Tonge (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 9 July 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 11 July 2001. It was answered by Clare Short (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 July 2001 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Dept for International Development

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was spent by the UK Government on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (c) military initiative mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2000-01. - Inc table.
Answer

Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much was spent by the UK Government on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (c) military initiative mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2000-01. [3389] Clare Short: Disbursements are as follows: 2000-01 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ (a) Humanitarian Mine Clearance {1}14,500,000 (c) Mine Awareness 500,000 (d) Research and Development 1,000,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes integrated mine awareness activities. As programmes are often integrated separate costs of awareness are not available. Notes: 1. All expenditure by Department of International Development (DFID) 2. Military mine clearance has taken place in the Balkans since 1992. Military advisers have been attached to UN Mine Action Centres assisting in the development of mine action programmes. They have also supervised the mine clearance carried out by the Entity Armed Forces and provided mine awareness to local populations. The Mine Information Training Centre (MITC) at Minley has provided mine awareness training to over 30,000 people. The MOD has also continued to monitor minefields in the Falkland Islands. This work is part of the wider responsibilities of those involved and is impossible to cost accurately. 3. DFID has not funded commercial mine clearance. There are no records of UK commercial demining activities currently available in Department of Trade and Industry. 4. Assistance to land mine victims is additional to our mine action programme. Mine victims benefit from our mainstream health and population and social development programmes, as well as specific programmes assisting the disabled. It is not possible to disaggregate expenditure figures for land mine victims.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
3389; 371 c529-30W
Session
2001-02
Subjects
Development aid Bomb disposal Expenditure Landmines Research
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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