Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to section 3.1 of his Department's guidance, Counter Proliferation Programme objectives, published in March 2017, for what reasons single-country projects are no longer eligible for support unless the target countries can self-fund the relevant proposals.

For financial year 2017/18 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has delegated a portion of its policy programme funding directly to the Embassies in its network, in order to better align financial accountability and policy delivery responsibility with programme activity and spend. Funding requests from the network were submitted to London and assessed by the policy strategy leads. Where country-specific programme activity is appropriate, the funding is managed by UK officials in country. Where a multi-country, regional or global programme approach is more appropriate, then the funding is managed by the directorate with the policy lead in London.