Weapons: Proliferation
(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the total budget allocated by the Government for projects under the (a) Global Threat Reduction Programme and (b) International Biological Security Programme was in (i) 2015-16, (ii) 2016-17 and (iii) 2017-18.
The total amount of UK financial support for projects established under the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Material of Mass Destruction comprises the Government's Global Threat Reduction Programme (GTRP – nuclear and radiological projects) and the International Biological Security Programme (IBSP). These are set out below. The 2017/18 figures are estimates.
Financial year | MOD expenditure Biological and chemical security | DECC/BEIS expenditure Nuclear and radiological security | Total expenditure |
2011/12 | £4.0 million | £18.5 million | £22.5 million |
2012/13 | £6.3 million | £13.1 million | £19.4 million |
2013/14 | £4.8 million | £10.4 million | £15.2 million |
2014/15 | £3.6 million | £10.5 million | £14.1 million |
2015/16 | £1.2 million | £11.5 million | £12.7 million |
2016/17 | £0.5 million | £11.6 million | £12.1 million |
2017/18 | £0.3 million | £10.2 million | £10.5 million |