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DR 331: Letter to the Chairman of the Committee from the Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
secondment of police officers to reconstruction missions overseas
Thank you for your letter of 18 March about the secondment of police officers to reconstruction missions overseas.
You will now
have seen the Written Ministerial Statement which I issued with the Secretaries
of State for Defence and International Development on 25 March, and my letter
to you of the same date. I was also grateful
for your supportive remarks in the
debate on
The Written Ministerial Statement sets out the financial constraints under which we will be operating in 2009/10, as a consequence of the projected rise in assessed peacekeeping costs, which is due to increased peacekeeping activity and exchange rate changes. And it contains further details of what we will continue to fund under the new arrangements.
The process of course involved a series of difficult decisions. It has not proved possible to fund all areas of activity to the same level as in previous years. But we are confident that the careful prioritisation of resources we have undertaken and the additional £71 million in Departmental resources should allow us to maintain our significant contribution to international peacekeeping and to fund conflict prevention and stabilisation in priority regions.
You asked in
particular about police secondments.
The
We continue to support the OSCE as one of the main financial contributors to the organisation. We will have fewer secondees deployed to OSCE missions in 2009/10, but will continue to supplement numbers, particularly in key positions, where possible.
I attach a table
at annex A which sets out detailed figures for
5 April 2009
annex a:
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