Overseas Aid
(asked on 11th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK aid budget was allocated as (a) grants and (b) loans in 2015-16.
UK aid spending figures are reported on a calendar year basis in Statistics on International Development[1]. The information requested is available for 2013 and 2014 as shown in Table 1 below. Figures for 2015 with the requested breakdown will be available and published in Statistics on International Development in October 2016[2].
Table 1: UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) by type of finance, 2013-2014
| 2013 | 2014 | ||
| £m | % of total ODA | £m | % of total ODA |
Total UK ODA | 11,424 | 100.0% | 11,726 | 100.0% |
of which: |
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Grants | 8,998 | 78.8% | 9,847 | 80.9% |
Capital subscriptions2 | 2,298 | 20.1% | 1,799 | 15.3% |
Loans 3 | 9 | 0.0% | 343 | 2.9% |
Other4 | 120 | 1.1% | 98 | 0.8% |
1. Figures may not sum to totals due to rounding
2. Capital subscriptions to multilateral organisations,
3. Includes bilateral loans to recipient countries and loans to multilateral organisations
4. Other types of ODA eligible finance include interest subsidies, equity acquisitions and debt relief.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2015
[2] Once released the publication will be available on the Statistics at DFID webpage