Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of UK overseas aid funding is distributed to each Commonwealth country in Africa.

Table 1 below provides the volume and proportion of UK bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided for the benefit of each Commonwealth country in Africa in 2021, the latest year for which data is published. Bilateral ODA is aid that has been earmarked, usually for specific countries, regions, or programmes.

The UK also spends ODA in the form of unearmarked contributions to multilateral organisations and bilaterally to programmes which benefit multiple countries/regions, some of which may also benefit Commonwealth countries in Africa.

Table 1: Volume and proportion of UK bilateral ODA provided for the benefit of Commonwealth countries in Africa, 2021