13.1 |
Resources
•
A new
Stabilisation Aid Fund (SAF) would be established to “take on”
funding for
stabilisation
and reconstruction activity in “‘hot’ conflict zones” from the
Conflict
Prevention
Pool.
•
New
governance and programme management arrangements for the
Conflict
Prevention
Pool and the SAF would be introduced to ensure that activity
was
based on a
common strategy, and that expenditure was prioritised
effectively
against
that strategy.
649.
In December,
the PCRU was renamed the Stabilisation Unit (SU), reflecting
the
emergence
of the broader concept of stabilisation and the Unit’s new role
managing
650.
The table
below shows the departmental settlements for the MOD, the
FCO
and DFID
from 2002/03 to 2009/10 (under the 2002, 2004 and 2007
Comprehensive
MOD
FCO
DFID
2002/03
28.0
1.5
3.9
2003/04
29.0
1.5
4.0
2004/05
29.2
1.6
4.0
2005/06
29.9
1.7
4.9
2006/07
30.2
1.7
5.3
2007/08
30.2
1.6
5.5
2008/09
30.8
1.6
5.7
2009/10
31.1
1.6
6.6
651.
The Inquiry
describes earlier in this Section how the MOD reclaimed the
net
additional
costs of military operations (NACMO) from the Reserve under an
established
procedure.
652.
All other
departments sought to cover additional costs by reprioritising
within their
existing
budgets and, if and when that proved insufficient, bidding to the
Treasury to
secure
additional funding from the Reserve.
653.
In his
evidence to the Inquiry, Sir Mark Lyall‑Grant described the
different levels
of funding
available to departments:
“… you have
the MOD which can call on the Reserve for unforeseen
military
expenditure.
You have DFID, who have a large amount of programme money,
but
403
Paper
Stabilisation Unit, December 2007, ‘Stabilisation
Unit’.
404
Email
Treasury [junior official] to Iraq Inquiry [junior official], 17
April 2014, ‘Further Queries Relating
to
Resources’. Figures are near cash settlements, in real terms
(2008/09 prices). Figures may differ from
Comprehensive
Spending Review settlement letters due to budget exchange,
inter‑departmental transfers
and other
factors.
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