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Home Office and International Organisations (Hoc, WA)

01 January 1991

Home Office and International Organisations (Hoc, WA)
artdoc June=1991

7.2.89 Col.580

Mr. Galbraith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
if he will list those international organisations on which his Department
is represented and the total cost of these commitments.

Mr. Hurd: My Department is represented at meetings arranged under the
auspices of the following organisations:
Anglo-French Policing and Frontier Controls Working Group
Council of Europe
Commonwealth
Comite Technique Internationale de Prevention et d'Extinction du Feu
Conference Permanente Europeenne de la Probation European Committee
on Standards
European Community
European Group on DNA Integration
European Civil Aviation Conference
IATA Working Group on Inadmissible Passengers intergovernmental
Commission on Channel Tunnel International Civil Aviation Organisation
Facilitation Committee
International Maritime Organisation Facilitation Committee
International Standards Organisation
International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation
International Prison Chaplains' Association
International de Metrologie Legale
Interpol
NATO
United Nations
Western European Union

In the financial year 1987-88 my Department's subscription to Interpol
was ¼440,000, to the Major Donors' group of the United Nations fund for
drug abuse control ¼162,000 and to the Council of Europe's cooperation
group to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs (the Pompidou
group) ¼34,000. The cost of other commitments could be estimated only ,it
disproportionate cost.