Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the socio-economic background of people appointed to senior positions in her Department in the last five years.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department for International Development collects data on the four key socio-economic metrics set across Government on a voluntary basis. These are listed below along with the percentage of senior civil servants who had recorded this information at 30 June 2018.
The table below confirms these measures and the percentage of Senior Civil Servants in DFID who have recorded this information to date.
Measure | Percentage of DFID SCS who have provided information |
Type of school attended between the age of 11 and 16 | 40% |
Eligibility for free school meals (if a person left school after 1980); | 36% |
Highest qualification achieved by a person’s parents by the time they were 18 | 40% |
The work the main earner in the household did when the person was 14 | 41% |
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget was allocated as (a) grants and (b) loans in 2013-14.
Answered by Nick Hurd
UK aid spending figures are reported on a calendar year basis in Statistics on International Development[1]. The information requested is available for 2013 and 2014 as shown in Table 1 below. Figures for 2015 with the requested breakdown will be available and published in Statistics on International Development in October 2016[2].
Table 1: UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) by type of finance, 2013-2014
| 2013 | 2014 | ||
| £m | % of total ODA | £m | % of total ODA |
Total UK ODA | 11,424 | 100.0% | 11,726 | 100.0% |
of which: |
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Grants | 8,998 | 78.8% | 9,847 | 80.9% |
Capital subscriptions2 | 2,298 | 20.1% | 1,799 | 15.3% |
Loans 3 | 9 | 0.0% | 343 | 2.9% |
Other4 | 120 | 1.1% | 98 | 0.8% |
1. Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding
2. Capital subscriptions to multilateral organisations,
3. Includes bilateral loans to recipient countries and loans to multilateral organisations
4. Other types of ODA eligible finance include interest subsidies, equity acquisitions and debt relief.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2015
[2] Once released the publication will be available on the Statistics at DFID webpage
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget was allocated as (a) grants and (b) loans in 2015-16.
Answered by Nick Hurd
UK aid spending figures are reported on a calendar year basis in Statistics on International Development[1]. The information requested is available for 2013 and 2014 as shown in Table 1 below. Figures for 2015 with the requested breakdown will be available and published in Statistics on International Development in October 2016[2].
Table 1: UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) by type of finance, 2013-2014
| 2013 | 2014 | ||
| £m | % of total ODA | £m | % of total ODA |
Total UK ODA | 11,424 | 100.0% | 11,726 | 100.0% |
of which: |
|
|
|
|
Grants | 8,998 | 78.8% | 9,847 | 80.9% |
Capital subscriptions2 | 2,298 | 20.1% | 1,799 | 15.3% |
Loans 3 | 9 | 0.0% | 343 | 2.9% |
Other4 | 120 | 1.1% | 98 | 0.8% |
1. Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding
2. Capital subscriptions to multilateral organisations,
3. Includes bilateral loans to recipient countries and loans to multilateral organisations
4. Other types of ODA eligible finance include interest subsidies, equity acquisitions and debt relief.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2015
[2] Once released the publication will be available on the Statistics at DFID webpage
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget was allocated as (a) grants and (b) loans in 2014-15.
Answered by Nick Hurd
UK aid spending figures are reported on a calendar year basis in Statistics on International Development[1]. The information requested is available for 2013 and 2014 as shown in Table 1 below. Figures for 2015 with the requested breakdown will be available and published in Statistics on International Development in October 2016[2].
Table 1: UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) by type of finance, 2013-2014
| 2013 | 2014 | ||
| £m | % of total ODA | £m | % of total ODA |
Total UK ODA | 11,424 | 100.0% | 11,726 | 100.0% |
of which: |
|
|
|
|
Grants | 8,998 | 78.8% | 9,847 | 80.9% |
Capital subscriptions2 | 2,298 | 20.1% | 1,799 | 15.3% |
Loans 3 | 9 | 0.0% | 343 | 2.9% |
Other4 | 120 | 1.1% | 98 | 0.8% |
1. Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding
2. Capital subscriptions to multilateral organisations,
3. Includes bilateral loans to recipient countries and loans to multilateral organisations
4. Other types of ODA eligible finance include interest subsidies, equity acquisitions and debt relief.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2015
[2] Once released the publication will be available on the Statistics at DFID webpage
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget will be allocated as (a) grants and (b) loans in 2016-17.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The information requested is not available for 2016-17.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham North)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of the G7's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition on small-scale farmers in Africa; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Grant Shapps
Every DFID programme which is contributing to the New Alliance initiative, including both country-level food security and nutrition programmes and funding for wider agricultural policy reforms, is subject to DFID’s annual review processes. In addition, partner governments conduct annual reviews of the effects of the New Alliance at country level. Reviews will help track progress against the top line New Alliance goal: to lift 50 million people in developing African nations out of poverty over ten years, through increasing investment in agriculture.