Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to which organisations his Department provides grant funding; and how much it has provided to each in each of the last 10-years. [10636]

Mr Jeremy Browne [holding answer 22 July 2010]: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has provided the following Grant in Aid funding to the BBC World Service, British Council, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), the Great Britain China Centre (GBCC) and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission (MACC).

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These are by far the greatest beneficiaries of FCO grants. Smaller grants have also been made to project implementers and other organisations around the world to help deliver UK foreign policy objectives. Budgets in the FCO are devolved to over 260 posts and details of these payments are not held centrally. As a result, this information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.