Overseas Aid

(asked on 22nd April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Official Development Assistance spend was on (a) climate and biodiversity, (b) global health security, (c) girls’ education, (d) humanitarian preparedness and response, (e) science and technology, (f) open societies and conflict resolution, (g) economic development and trade and (h) cross-cutting contributions to multilateral partners and global funds in each of the last five years.


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James Duddridge
This question was answered on 27th April 2021

The Statistics on International Development (SID) National Statistics, published on GOV.UK, provides an overview of all UK spend on Official Development Assistance (ODA).

The SID table "Table A7" presents UK bilateral ODA by sector for 2015-2019 (last five available years): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920060/Table-A7.ods

The UK is one of the top Development Assistance Committee donors to provide core funding to multilateral organisations. The SID table "Table A1" presents core contributions to multilaterals, as well as bilateral through multilateral, for 2015-2019: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920034/Table-A1.ods

UK ODA figures for 2020 will be published in Autumn 2021, via Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020.

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