Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on overseas development aid projects in each of the last 10 years; and what the (a) value, (b) nature and (c) outcome was of each project.

The Department’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend is reported in annual United Kingdom Government statistics on international development, which includes any spend on overseas development aid projects.

The most recent information on the Department of Health’s ODA spend, for 2015, was published by the Department for International Development in their November 2016 publication Statistics on International Development 2016. A copy is attached.

Prior to 2015 the Department of Health did not make any specific payments for overseas aid projects through the ODA; the only contribution was for the World Health Organization annual subscription.