The health department pledged to find £4.35bn, local government offered £2.1bn, the children's, schools and families budget £1.1bn.
Having recently seen Oxfam's work in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, I was reminded of just how hard it is to reach those in greatest need in fragile and conflict-affected states, where the department pledges to spend half of its aid.
The department pledged $7 million for cleanup and testing last year, and Brown later proposed adding $8.5 million.
The US state department has pledged $1m towards the cost of the trial, a decision tied to the creation of Obama's year-old atrocities prevention board.
His department has pledged more than $3 billion to other industrial plants to encourage the capture of carbon dioxide for sale to oil drillers, who use it to more easily get crude out of wells.
Two days earlier, the police department had pledged to investigate Brown's death while simultaneously stating that the shooting was the result of a struggle in which Brown allegedly went for an officer's weapon.
But the department has pledged to take a gentle approach, choosing to educate and warn violators rather than issue a fine.
Currently 10 large orthopaedic centres and associated physiotherapy outpatient departments have pledged collaboration.
In the pledge department, Mr. Gore vowed to make government smaller, saying, "I will not add to the number of people doing work for the federal government -- not even by even one position".
Debenhams, meanwhile, reaffirmed the importance of shoppers to Britain's economic health as the UK's second largest department store group pledged to open new sites and hire an extra 1,700 people.
After meeting their target of 80% the previous year, the commercial departments made a pledge to push appraisal completion rates up to 90% in the financial year ending March 2011.
