1 Horse Guards Road,
Information Rights Unit
London.
SW1A 2HQ
Tel: 020 7270 4558
Fax: 020 7451 4861
Jonathan McCullough
[HM Treasury request email]
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
By email:
[FOI #356 email]
Our refs: IRU/8/250 & 251
[email address]
Email/8960/2008 & Email/8959/2008
5th June 2008
Dear Mr. McCullough,
Thank you for your narrowed enquiries dated 7th May 2008 for information under the
Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2000, following our previous reply.
You have asked about the UK’s annual contribution towards the World Heath
Organisation and the United Nations Security Council.
I regret to inform you that the Treasury does not hold this information. As indicated
in our previous reply, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) leads on the
UK’s institutional engagement with the UN’s principal organs, including the UN
Secretariat and Security Council.
To be helpful, I can relay some information provided by the FCO, as follows:
• The FCO meets the cost of the UK’s contribution to the UN Regular Budget,
the core budget for the UN Secretariat, the UN’s principal organs (including
the Security Council) and their subsidiary bodies. The Budget is agreed for a
two calendar-year period, and the UK currently pays 6.642% of the total. For
2008 the UK share is £61.4million.
• Security Council-mandated Special Political Mission activities are funded from
the UN Regular Budget. UN Peacekeeping Operations have separate
budgets and Member States contribute to the cost according to a separate
scale of assessments.
• The World Health Organisation is a Specialised Agency of the United Nations.
The Department of Health meets the cost of the annual assessed contribution
to the WHO budget. Other Government Departments and agencies
contribute funds to the programme activities of the organisation.
The FCO Departmental Report (2007/8) includes an overview of the UK’s financial
contributions to the United Nations system for calendar year 2007. The information
is contained in Table 14, which can be found in Part 3 (“Financing our work and PSA
performance assessment”) of the report.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/publications/publications/annual-reports/departmental-
report/
I bring to your attention that government documents have crown copyright and a
legal statement regarding our copyright is attached.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the Treasury’s
Correspondence and Enquiry Unit (CEU) at
[HM Treasury request email]. It would be helpful to us, if you could remember to quote the IRU reference number
given in the header to this letter in any future communications.
Yours sincerely,
Balvinder Chowdhary
Information Rights Unit
On behalf of HM Treasury
Crown Copyright.
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it
for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-
use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. Most documents supplied by the
Treasury will have been produced by Government officials and will be Crown Copyright. You can find details on the arrangements
for re-using Crown Copyright on HMSOnline at:
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If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review
of our decision, you should write within two months of the date of this letter to HM Treasury, Information Rights Unit, 2/SW, 1 Horse
Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ.
Email:
[HM Treasury request email]
If you are not content with the outcome your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Treasury. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
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