Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department will classify the medical support provided to India to help fight covid-19 as overseas development assistance.

The UK was the first country to deliver life-saving medical support to India to help fight COVID-19. We sent three oxygen generating units, 1,200 ventilators and 495 oxygen concentrators, in response to the Indian Government's most urgent priorities.

Official Development Assistance (ODA) is the official international standard used to measure aid flows to developing countries and is produced according to agreed definitions and methodologies overseen by the OECD DAC. 2021 UK ODA spend will be published as usual in FCDO's Statistics on International Development in 2022.