Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the budget was for the ODA crisis reserve in each of the last five years; and what the projected budget is for 2022-23.

The 2015 UK Aid Strategy and the 2015 Spending Review created a £500 million Official Development Assistance (ODA) Crisis Reserve which was allocated to DFID. £200 million of this was for allocation to emerging crises during the year. £300 million was allocated to live programming across the portfolio but which could be redeployed to crisis activity if required.

The Written Ministerial Statement of 21 April 2021 announced the detail of the UK ODA allocations for FY21/22, including £906 million for humanitarian preparedness and response with £30 million of this to be held as a central crisis reserve.

ODA allocations for 2022-23 will be published in in due course.