United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations
(asked on 16th June 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of military spending is spent on UK contributions to UN peacekeeping operations.
This question was answered on 21st June 2021
In the financial year 2019-20, the UK expenditure on Defence's operational contributions to UN Peacekeeping was £29.3million, which equates to 6.2% of total expenditure on operations. This includes the deployment of contingent troops to Cyprus and Somalia, residual costs from the drawdown in South Sudan, net additional costs to prepare for the deployment to Mali, and the deployment of individual Military Staff Officers to seven UN Peacekeeping missions in total.