Written question asked by Baroness Tonge (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 13 March 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 21 March 2002. It was answered by Clare Short (Labour) on Thursday, 21 March 2002 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 Government on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (d) military initiative mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2001-02. - Table given.

Answer: Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much was spent by the Government on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (d) military initiative mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2001-02. [43878] Clare Short: Estimated disbursements for 2001-02 are as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2001-02 (1) Humanitarian Mine Clearance {1}10.2 (2) Mines Awareness 0.5 (3) Research and Development 1.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Also includes some integrated mine awareness activities. As programmes are often integrated separate costs of awareness are not available. Specific mine awareness activities are undertaken with UNICEF as shown at item two.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 43878; 382 c471W;382 c469W
Session: 2001-02
Subjects: Development aid Bomb disposal Expenditure Humanitarian aid Landmines Research
Contains statistics: Yes
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