Conflict Pool
(asked on 10th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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 and is financed from HM Treasury under the Conflict Resources settlement. It is managed tri-departmentally, with resources transferred to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to fund those projects the MOD will undertake.The Conflict Pool is managed on a regional programme, not country basis.
The MOD 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 and Kenya; in the Middle East and North Africa including projects in Syria, Libya 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 therefore data is not held on a purely country basis. The MOD also funds activity through the Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships Programme (SAP).
Regional and thematic figures by programme are below.
| 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
Africa | £21,955,253 | £25,155,043 | £15,349,300 | £13,969,330 | £17,451,482 |
Afghanistan | £1,944,340 | £3,051,185 | £515,538 | £1,296,540 | £1,022,957 |
MENA | £2,896,937 | £2,675,774 | £3,371,921 | £3,804,968 | £10,945,265 |
South Asia | £7,124,261 | £8,661,400 | £1,305,900 | £305,364 | £494,011 |
SAP* | £3,516,826 | £2,124,898 | £2,074,708 | £3,123,000 | £3,790,000 |
Wider Europe | £22,606,731 | £20,576,782 | £19,722,746 | £19,777,805 | £19,693,366 |
*Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships Programme; previously Strategic Support to International Organisations Programme