Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the Department for International Development's budget relates to Africa south of the Sahara.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The UK spends more than £5 billion in ODA in Africa each year, through both country specific bilateral programming and through UK funding to multilateral organisations.
Details of DFID spend are contained in Statistics on International Development. The most recent publication contains provisional aid spend for 2019 and shows DFID region or country specific bilateral official development assistance (ODA) spend in Africa in 2019 was £2.448 billion.
In addition to region/country specific bilateral ODA, £2.607 billion was spent on projects where it has not been possible to assign to any single recipient country or region. A proportion of this will have been spent in Africa.
DFID’s total ODA spend in 2019 was £11.107 billion.
Spend in Africa above does not include imputed shares of UK funding to the general core budgets of multilateral organisations. The latest spend numbers available are for 2018, and show the imputed UK share of Multilateral Net ODA spent in sub-Saharan Africa was £2.2 billion.
Asked by: Lord Grocott (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the United Kingdom's overseas development budget is distributed via the European Union; and what amount that represents.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The latest Statistics on International Development (published in 2014) show that in 2013, UK ODA attributed from the Development Share of the EU Budget was £813 million, and ODA contributions to the off-budget European Development Fund were £407 million. Combined this is around 11% of UK ODA.