Columbia: Overseas Aid

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much financial assistance the UK Government has offered to the Colombian Government to help tackle illicit drugs in that country.


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Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 12th March 2021

Between April 2015 and March 2020, HMG spent £11,785,400 on Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) programming covering Colombia, Peru, Panama and Venezuela, focused on tackling serious organized crime and corruption, including tackling illicit drugs. It is not possible to disaggregate this figure by country as a significant proportion of the programming is regional in nature, and activities benefit more than one country. It should be noted that a significant proportion of this figure was activity delivered by HMG, and was not outsourced to other implementers.

The UK has also contributed to a multi-donor $2 million project for crop substitution and food security, as well as funding the provision of technical advisers to the Colombian government office overseeing this work.

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