Paul Flynn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) military and (b) humanitarian aid the UK provided to the Libyan government in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
Hugh Robertson
Due to our accounting structures we are only able to provide exact spending figures for financial years rather than calendar years. In this time, the UK has provided military aid to Libya in the form of the defence portion of the tri-Departmental (MOD, FCO, DfID) Conflict Pool, and core defence funding for Defence Engagement activity. This has been:
• 2010/11 – £3000
• 2011/12 – £200,000
• 2012/13 – £2,173,000
• 2013/14 – £3,521,000
This has formed part of a total of over £25m stabilisation assistance to the Libyan government through the Arab Partnership and Conflict Pool programme during the period 2011-2013.
During the period 2011-13 the UK provided humanitarian aid to Libya for protection of civilians, assistance for survival and effective international humanitarian coordination, especially through the UN, broken down as follows:
• 2011/12 – £7,843,227.40
• 2012/13 – £304,100.37
• 2013/14 – £0
The UK no longer provides this type of humanitarian aid to Libya but instead is providing technical support for security, justice and rule of law capacity building, through the Arab partnership and Conflict Pool.
