Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department’s 10 largest bilateral Official Development Assistance programmes (a) were in financial year 2020-21 and (b) will be in financial year 2021-22.

(a) Please refer to annex B in the latest DFID annual report (DFID Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) which shows the indicative budget allocation of bilateral spend by organisational unit. Final outturn for financial year will 2020-21 will be published in our annual report later this year.

(b) The Foreign Secretary has set out seven core priorities for the UK's aid budget in the overarching pursuit of poverty reduction: climate and biodiversity; Covid and global health security; girls' education; science and research; defending open societies and resolving conflict; humanitarian assistance; and promoting trade and economic growth. We are working through our internal business planning process which will allocate the ODA budget across these priorities and geographies. No decisions have yet been made on individual country or sectoral budget allocations for 2020/21.