Written question asked by Frank Cook (Labour) on Wednesday, 31 March 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 April 2004. It was answered by Hilary Benn (Labour) on Monday, 19 April 2004 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Dept for International Development

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (c) military initiatives in mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) mine victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2003. - Inc table.

Answer: Mr. Frank Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department spent on (a) humanitarian mine clearance, (b) commercial mine clearance, (c) military initiatives in mine clearance, (d) mine awareness, (e) mine victim assistance and (f) research and development for mine clearance in 2003. [165850] Hilary Benn: Disbursements in the Financial Year 2003-04 were as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. (£) Humanitarian Mine Clearance 19,717,650 Mine Risk Education (Awareness) Grant to UNICEF 650,000 Research & Development inc knowledge provision 1,498,443 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 DFID has not directly funded commercial mine clearance or military mine clearance initiatives in 2003. However commercial companies will benefit from contracts that use DFID funds provided to the United Nations for mine action programmes. The above programmes also include integrated demining activities that include mine risk education programmes. DFID is not able to disaggregate either of these figures.

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