Sub-Saharan Africa: Overseas Aid

(asked on 12th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the change in the level of total Official Development Assistance to eligible Commonwealth member states in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last reporting year.


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Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 17th March 2021

For the last reporting year available (2019), the UK's bilateral Official Development Assistance to Commonwealth countries in Sub-Sahara Africa was approximately £1.173 billion. This was an increase of around 7 per cent on the previous year.

Detail on UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending in 2020 is not yet available.   In the autumn, FCDO will publish "Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020". This publication will contain detailed breakdowns including UK bilateral ODA to Commonwealth countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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