Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much the Government has spent on programmes based in Libya aimed at countering irregular migration from that country; who the Libyan executor was of those programmes; and whether those programmes were funded from the UK aid budget, for each year since 2011.

Since October 2015, the UK has allocated over £175 million of humanitarian assistance in response to the Mediterranean migration crisis, including substantial support in Libya. Projects related to migration, dating back to 2015, are listed below.

As part of the Department for International Development's £75 million programme supporting interventions in origin, transit and destination countries across the sub-Saharan and north African migration routes, up to £5 million will be allocated to humanitarian assistance and protection for migrants and refugees in Libya. In addition, a new multi-year programme worth £3.29 million focuses on multi-sector humanitarian assistance and building capacity of primary health care services.

These programmes illustrate the UK's "whole of route" approach to supporting safe, legal and well-managed migration. Drawing on a range of funding sources, including UK Aid, the UK acts with and through key partners such as the UN High Commissoner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and builds the capacity of key Libyan actors (for example in the criminal justice sector) to provide the long-term capabilities to tackle the associated threats and drivers.

The information back to 2011 is not readily available/held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

• International Committee of the Red Cross Humanitarian programme in Libya £2 million
• IOM Med Migration programme £0.8 million
• UNHCR Med Migration programme £0.45 million
• IOM Safety Support and Solutions - Support to International Organisation for Migration for direct assistance and protection for migrants inside Libya £1.5 million
• IOM Safety Support and Solutions - IOM AVR (support to voluntary returns) £0.5 million
• UNHCR Safety Support and Solutions (support to UNHCR refugee and returns programmes in North Africa) £2.18 million
• Danish Refugees Council Safety Support and Solutions (to protect women and girls from the heightened risks of trafficking and gender based violence faced in Libya) £1.5 million
• UNHCR North Africa Joint Unit (NAJU) programme (support to UNHCR refugee and returns programmes in North Africa) £0.85 million
• IOM NAJU Conflict Stability and Security Fund programme (support for voluntary returns) £1.7 million