Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much in support of which projects the counter-proliferation programme spent in each of the last six financial years.

We publish a strategy for the FCO Counter Proliferation Programme each year. The strategy for 2016/17 is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counter-proliferation-programme

The largest programme contribution in the last six financial years was £506,432 in 2015/16 to support the IAEA’s additional verification work in support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran. The programme also made a contribution in 2013/14 amounting to £400,000. In previous years contributions have been made to international organisations, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Arms Trade Treaty and export control regimes.

Partners have also included Chatham House, Kings College London, Saferworld, Small Arms Survey and Wilton Park.