PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pakistan: Drugs (9 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding the Government plans to contribute to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's supply-reduction-focused counter-narcotics work in Pakistan.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The UK is supportive of the work that UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) carries out in Pakistan. Between 2012 and 2015 the UK joined nine other countries to help fund a UNODC programme targeting illicit trafficking and improving border management. This assisted in building the capacity of the Government of Pakistan to tackle organised crime and to stem the illicit flow of substances across their border. The project also included training on International Human Rights Law. This project concluded in March 2015. Further funding to UNODC is under consideration.

Answered by:
Mr Tobias Ellwood (Conservative)
15 June 2015