Development Aid

(asked on 12th September 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Preet Kaur Gill Portrait
Preet Kaur Gill
(Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2018 to Question 169665 on development aid, how much of the £3,736 million is spent in each broad sector.

Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 9th October 2018

Of the £3,736 million of UK bilateral aid that was spent in the top 20 receiving countries in 2016, the breakdown by broad sector is given in the table below.

Broad sector area

£ million

Humanitarian assistance

1,016

Government and civil society

692

Health

518

Education

451

Other social infrastructure and services.

334

Economic infrastructure and services

186

Production services

141

Multisector aid 1

136

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

113

Commodity and General Programme Assistance

79

Refugee costs

56

Unallocated to a specific sector2

7

Administration costs

6

UK bilateral aid to top 20 receiving countries

£3,736

Source: Statistics on International Development

  1. Includes cross-cutting research and funding to scientific institutions.
  2. This includes promotion of development awareness for these countries, and aid that cuts across multiple sectors and so cannot be assigned to a single sector.
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