East Africa: Development Aid

(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department’s funding announcements on 19 August and 21 September 2022 for the drought and hunger response in East Africa represent an increase in Official Development Assistance funding or a re-direction of existing UK funding.


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Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 20th October 2022

This financial year 2022/23, the UK intends to provide approximately £156 million in humanitarian aid across East Africa. The £14 million announced on 19 August for World Humanitarian Day forms part of this total. On 21 September at UNGA, the Minister for Development announced £22.8 million to Somalia to respond to the drought, bringing the UK financial year total for Somalia to £53 million for humanitarian, health and nutrition support. This funding was drawn from our humanitarian and other existing budgets.

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