Ethiopia: Development Aid

(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much aid his Department has provided to Ethiopia in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 27th March 2023

The official source of data on UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) is Statistics on International Development. The table below shows (in £ thousands) FCDO's and Other Government Departments/other contributors' net bilateral ODA provided for the benefit of Ethiopia from 2017-2021 (the latest year for which data has been published). The UK also spends ODA in the form of unearmarked contributions to multilateral organisations and there is bilateral spend to programmes which benefit multiple countries or regions. Some of this may benefit Ethiopia but it is not possible to provide a specific breakdown.

Table 1: Volume of FCDO and other Government departments' net bilateral ODA provided for the benefit of Ethiopia (2017-2021)

Thousands (£)

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office

322,686

297,628

295,505

249,478

118,049

Other Government Departments/ other contributors

3,445

3,713

3,741

4,409

1,741

Total UK Net ODA

326,131

301,341

299,246

253,887

119,790

Source: Statistics for International Development https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development

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