Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Overseas Aid

(asked on 25th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to row three of the Ring-fenced budgets Resource DEL table on page 14 of her Department's 2019-20 Main Estimate Memorandum, if she will publish a breakdown of budgeted expenditure under Official development assistance.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 6th September 2019

In relation to the Resource Department Expenditure Limits (DEL) table on page 10 of the memorandum, the Capital DEL table on page 11 and Resource AME table on page 13:

A breakdown is provided in the annex under ‘Part II: Subhead detail’.

In relation to ring-fenced budgets on page 14 and 15 of the memorandum:

The breakdown is to be published as a HM Treasury OSCAR data release later in the 2019 calendar year. Defra’s ring-fenced spend on OSCAR is identified by sub segment codes ending with I, J, M and N within the data release. These Official Statistics are released at the following location:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database

We send our Estimate and Memorandum (including the Annexes) to our Select Committee and this should all be published on the documents page under commons committee for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. Our Annex (attached) has not been published but the Scrutiny Unit is following up on this.

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