Iraq: Overseas Aid

International Development written question – answered at on 20 January 2010.

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Photo of Colin Breed Colin Breed Shadow Treasury Minister

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assistance his Department is providing to the Iraqi government to increase the water flow into the Hawizeh marshes.

Photo of Douglas Alexander Douglas Alexander The Secretary of State for International Development

The Department for International Development (DFID) is not providing any assistance directly to the Iraqi Government to increase the water flow into the Hawizeh marshes. However, the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq, to which the UK has contributed £70 million, has supported an $11 million UN Environment Programme project to support environmental management of the Iraqi Marshlands.

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