Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of overseas aid is distributed via GiveDirectly.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has recently worked on two Give Directly projects, the first to build climate resilience in Malawi, and the second for humanitarian support to majority Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

The Minister for International Development confirmed at the International Development Select Committee on 3 June that our funding for GiveDirectly in Malawi is paused.

The latest figure for 2024 expenditure is £1.96 million in Malawi and £1.85 million in Uganda, totalling £3.81 million. Details of programmes, including disbursements, are available on DevTracker. Based on published provisional total Official Development Assistance (ODA) figures for 2024, these disbursements represent 0.027 per cent of the total 2024 UK ODA expenditure of £14.066 billion.