APPENDIX 4
Memorandum submitted by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office on the Winter Supplementary Estimate
The Secretary of State announced to the House
of Commons on 9 November that the Foreign and Commonwealth Expenditure
Limit for 2000-01 will be increased by £96,723,000 from £1,113,610,000
to £1,210,333,000. (In the 1999-2000 Winter Supplementary
the FCO Expenditure Limit was increased by £59,218,000 from
£1,112,022,000 to £1,171,240.000). The running cost
limit will be increased by £17,989,000 from £513,993,000
to £531,982,000. (For the 1999-2000 Winter Supplementary
the FCO's running costs were reduced by £1,000,000 reflecting
an off-setting saving offered up by the FCO against non-baseline
peacekeeping costs.) The components of the net claim are shown
below:
PEACEKEEPING
(i) The bulk of the FCO's expenditure on
peacekeeping is met by claims to the DEL Reserve under the "Armstrong
formula" arrangement with the Treasury. This year's claim
was for additional provision of £73,935,000 (for the 1999-2000
Winter Supplementary there was an additional provision of £36,702,000)
for UK contributions to United Nations Missions in the former
Yugoslavia (includes UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
and the former Soviet Union, United Nations Monitoring, Verification
and Inspection Commission (Iraq), United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observer
Mission, United Nations Mission for the Referendum on Western
Sahara, United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor, United
Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, the United Nations International
Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Organisation
for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Community
Monitoring Mission and Western European Union Police Mission in
Albania.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
(ii) Take up of end year flexibility of
£16,264,000 for running costs and £4,799,000 for capital
expenditure (for the 1999-2000 Winter Supplementary there was
£8,516,000 take up of end year flexibility for assistance
to Sierra Leone). This reflects the carry forward of unused provision
from the previous financial year. These resources will be used
to meet high priority FCO objectives and allow completion of capital
expenditure projects.
(iii) The FCO made a successful bid of £1,725,000
against the Civil Service Modernisation Fund for improved training
and selection arrangements in London.
A full account of the use of FCO resources is
of course provided in the Departmental Report.
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