Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which NATO countries reimburse costs from their overseas aid budget to their defence budget when their military are deployed internationally on humanitarian exercises.
Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
In the UK, Humanitarian and disaster-relief operations are the only activity area in support of international development where the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is formally reimbursed from the overseas aid budget. We do not hold information on transfers between overseas aid and defence budgets in other NATO countries. Reporting on how NATO countries spend Official Development Assistance (ODA) is done by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC). The OECD-DAC publish project level information on spend by all donor members, including NATO countries, on their website (wwww.oecd.org/dac/stats/). This includes data on humanitarian assistance spending, which may or may not be partially reimbursed from defence budgets.