UNESCO
(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much financial support the Government has provided to UNESCO and its subsidiary agencies or national committees in each of the last five years; and from which government departments such support has come.
DFID and DCMS have managed the UK Government’s contributions to UNESCO and its subsidiary agencies over the last five years, a breakdown of which is denoted in the following table:
| Total DFID contributions to UNESCO and its subsidiaries (£) | Department of Culture, Media and Sport contributions to UNESCO and its subsidiaries (Contribution to World Heritage Fund) (£) | Total UK government financial support to UNESCO (£) |
2011/12 | 29,577,145 | 132,303 | 29,709,448 |
2012/13 | 11,165,043 | 133,748 | 11,298,791 |
2013/14 | 13,137,912 | 110,910 | 13,248,821 |
2014/15 | 13,275,902 | 100,498 | 13,379,400 |
2015/16 | 10,400,893 | 101,160 | 10,502,053 |
DFID pays the core contribution to UNESCO on behalf of the UK Government and chooses to fund additional programmes for dedicated work on specific issues.