Department for Work and Pensions: Overseas Aid

(asked on 15th January 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Philip Davies Portrait
Philip Davies
(Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on Official Development Assistance in each year since 2015.

Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2019

The amounts of DWP expenditure classified by Department for International Development (DFID) as Overseas Development Assistance are shown in the Table below

2015

2016

2017

£m

£m

£m

9

24

31

These are published by DFID.

2016 and 2017 can be found on Page 12, Table 3 in the following publication

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/771136/Statistics-on-International-Development-Final-UK-Aid-Spend-2017-jan-revisions.pdf

2015 and 2016 can be found on Page 12, Table 3 in the following publication

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/660062/SID-2017b.pdf

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