Ministry of Defence: Overseas Aid
(asked on 6th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2019 to Question 208846 on Ministry of Defence: Overseas Aid, what that money was spent on.
Since the beginning of 2015 the Ministry of Defence has spent a total of £13.98 million on Official Development.
The 2018 figure is currently underdoing a regular assurance process and is scheduled to be published on 1 April 2019. A breakdown by programme is detailed below*.
Programme | 2015 (£ million) | 2016 (£ million) | 2017 (£ million) |
Defence Education Programmes | 1.74 | 2.28 | 3.74 |
British Forces Cyprus: Refugee Camp | 0.61 | 0.75 | 0.63 |
UK Hydrographic Office Charting Support | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.86 |
Locally Employed Civilian Training: Afghanistan | - | 1.25 | 0.86 |
Royal Navy: Disaster Relief Training | Less than 0.10 | Less than 0.10 | Less than 0.10 |
‘Askari Serpent’: Local Vaccination Programmes | - | 0.11 | 0.10 |
Humanitarian Stores - Migrant Rescue in Mediterranean | 0.18 | 0.13 | - |
Total | 2.75 | 5.11 | 6.12 |
*Figures rounded to 2 decimal places, in accordance with guidelines – aid programmes are recorded by calendar years.