Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to programmes to eradicate the Guinea worm in (a) Ethiopia, (b) South Sudan, (c) Mali, (d) Chad and (e) other African countries.

The UK provided a total of £39.5m in funding to the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme between 2009 and 2018. Funding allocations to countries were flexible to allow scale up or down as required. Between 2015 and 2018, of a total of £9.5 million, the estimated breakdown of spending by country was:

• £1.235 million in Ethiopia;

• £4.75 million in South Sudan;

• £0.285 million in Mali;

• £1.71 million in Chad; and

• £1.52 million in non-country specific spending.