Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what voluntary financial contributions the Government made to the (a) Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Syria Trust Fund, (b) OPCW Voluntary Fund for Assistance and (c) voluntary trust fund for the OPCW International Support Network for Victims of Chemical Weapons in (i) 2014-15, (ii) 2015-16 and (iii) 2016-17, in addition to the UK's assessed contributions to the OPCW budget, in each of those years.

The UK made voluntary financial contributions to the Syria Trust Fund of £276,000 in 2014-15 and £50,000 in 2016-17. We have also supported significant contributions from the European Union, including 2.3 million euros announced in March 2016. The UK has not contributed to the other two funds over this period.