Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent from the Conflict Pool in each country in each year since its launch.

The tri-departmental Conflict Pool in its current form was created in 2010. The Conflict Pool is managed on a regional programme basis. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funded projects in all of the Conflict Pool's five regional programmes: in Afghanistan; in Africa where activity has included work in Nigeria, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya; in the Middle East and North Africa including projects in Syria, Libya, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories; in South Asia where activity has mostly been in Pakistan; and activity through the Wider Europe programme in the Western Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Activity in all these programmes includes regional, cross-border and multilateral projects as well as country-specific activity. The FCO also funds activity through the Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships Programme (SAP) supporting international organisations, including the UN and international NGOs, to prevent conflict.

It is therefore not possible to break down spend fully on a country basis. The FCO's spend by programme from FY2009/10 to FY 2013/14 is detailed below:

Africa
2009/10 £11,513,293
2010/11 £10,148,734
2011/12 £23,928,463
2012/13 £22,648,917
2013/14 £24,575,287

Afghanistan
2009/10 £65,015,660
2010/11 £72,260,986
2011/12 £67,391,371
2012/13 £48,274,454
2013/14 £35,123,462

MENA
2009/10 £13,086,773
2010/11 £8,219,371
2011/12 £15,390,246
2012/13 £17,286,896
2013/14 £44,656,803

South Asia
2009/10 £5,162,725
2010/11 £6,886,111
2011/12 £10,048,078
2012/13 £13,382,327
2013/14 £15,238,714

SAP
2009/10 £1,795,450
2010/11 £1,879,215
2011/12 £1,314,659
2012/13 £3,043,310
2013/14 £3,004,862

Wider Europe
2009/10 £22,606,731
2010/11 £9,201,708
2011/12 £8,024,044
2012/13 £11,034,924
2013/14 £15,001,854