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Written Question
Burma
Wednesday 18th June 2014

Asked by: Baroness Nye (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total amount of international aid to Burma and what percentage is provided by them.

Answered by Baroness Northover

DFID publishes aid statistics each year on the gov.uk website as ‘Statistics on International Development' (SID). The most recent set of data for which we can compare UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) with the total of bilateral ODA provided by OECD Development Assistance Committee countries to Burma is from 2010, when the overall total was £161 million. The UK provided around 18% of this total.

Written Question
Burma
Tuesday 17th June 2014

Asked by: Baroness Nye (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the British Ambassador to Burma has raised the jailing of Zaw Pe with the government of Burma.

Answered by Baroness Warsi

Our Ambassador has discussed the case of Zaw Pe, and those of other arrested journalists, with Deputy Minister of Information Ye Htut. The cases of Zaw Pe and many other individuals were also raised during the first EU-Burma Human Rights Dialogue in May.