Memorandum from the Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
Following the Government's agreement in December
2003 to provide the committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC)
with details of all military gifts made under the Conflict Prevention
Pools and Stabilisation Aid Fund (formerly the Global and Africa
Conflict Prevention Pools), we have identified that the UK government
made gifts of military equipment to the total value of £1,969,050 (during
the period April to September 2008), and the attached table provides
a breakdown of this equipment.
The Conflict Prevention Pool (CPP) was set up
in April 2008 as a successor to the Global and Africa Conflict
Prevention Pools. The CPP is jointly managed by the FCO, Ministry
of Defence (MOD) and Department for International Development
(DFID) and is intended to deliver long-term conflict prevention
activity through regional programmes. Activity is focused on where
the UK can have its biggest impact, through thematic programmes
which identify cross-cutting conflict prevention issues. All work
funded by the CPP is intended to help achieve the Public Service
Agreement on Conflict. From 2008-11, £269 million of
funding will be available with £73 million of funding
available in 2008-09.
Separately I am also attaching the UK's Annual
Declaration to the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile
Proliferation for 2008 here for your information. [14]There
have been no changes since our last interim return in April.
18 December 2008
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