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Written Question
Refugees: Development Aid
Monday 19th June 2023

Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the Government's total spending on Official Development Assistance was spent on in-donor refugee costs in financial year 2022-23; how much and what proportion of that spending was disbursed by the Home Office; if he will make an estimate of forecast Official Development Assistance spending on in-donor refugee costs in financial year 2023-24; and if he will make an estimate of how much and what proportion of that spending will be disbursed by the Home Office.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell

Statistics on International Development is the official source of information on Official Development Assistance (ODA). ODA is measured on a calendar year basis rather than financial year. The latest published data is available on GOV.UK in Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2022. Supplementary Table 1 shows that the UK spent £3,686 million on in-donor refugee costs in 2022 on a provisional basis, which was 28.9 per cent of total UK ODA. Of this, the Home Office spent £2,382 million (64.6 percent of the UK's total in-donor refugee costs).

Provisional figures for 2023 will be published as normal in Statistics on International Development in Spring 2024.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-provisional-uk-aid-spend-2022

Written Question
Development Aid
Tuesday 19th July 2022

Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the 2022 International Development Strategy, if she will increase funding for programmes focused on delivering universal, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Answered by Vicky Ford

The Foreign Secretary has said we intend to restore bilateral funding for women and girls, which includes programmes focused on universal, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights. The FCDO is working to complete its business and country planning process as soon as possible, which will allow us to finalise budget allocations, taking account of our Spending Review settlement. We cannot comment on funding allocations until this is finalised.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"What discussions are the Government having with our overseas territories and Crown dependencies to ensure that the measures we are taking on illicit finance are being supported by them—that those same rules are being introduced in their own territories as well?..."
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Written Question
Economic Crime
Tuesday 8th March 2022

Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle illicit finance.

Answered by Vicky Ford

Money obtained through corruption or criminality, including that linked to Russia, is not welcome in the UK. This is why the Government is at the forefront of tackling illicit finance, combatting the threat from source to destination.

My department has introduced the toughest possible sanctions in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and sent a clear message that there is no place for stolen and illegitimate wealth from Russia in the UK.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Apr 2021
Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions

"I warmly welcome the statement and the measures announced. Does the Foreign Secretary agree that there is a need to update the international rules and action to ensure that all the progress we have made on tackling money laundering and the hiding of stolen money is not undermined by the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What recent discussions the Government have had with authorities in the (a) overseas territories and (b) Crown dependencies on establishing public registers of the beneficial ownership of companies. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jan 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Can my right hon. Friend confirm what date the Government will set in the Order in Council if the overseas territories do not move voluntarily on this issue, and will he confirm that the end of 2023 will be far too late, given that it would be five years after …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"Where assets have been frozen—for example, in the case of Libya and its support for the IRA—does the Secretary of State see any scope for a licence to allow that money to be used to help the victims of such outrageous crimes?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson). I also pay credit to her husband’s work at Transparency International. I think he came up with the phrase that, as we leave the European Union, we should be “a beacon, not a buccaneer”. That is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does the Minister expect the registers to be publicly available, or will they be closed registers that can be accessed only by the relevant authorities?..."
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