Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the value of Official Development Assistance funding spent in (a) the Democratic Republic of Congo and (b) Goma in each of the last five years.

The UK is a longstanding donor to the DRC. Since 2013 the UK has spent over £1.1 billion GBP in bilateral ODA in the DRC. Over the last 5 years this is broken down as follows: 2016/17 - £129.5 million, 2017/18 - £166.2 million, 2018/19 - £203.7 million,2019/20 - £184.6 million, 2020/21 - £132.4 million.

Through this funding, UK aid is:

• improving health services for up to 10 million people
• helping 4.7 million children under 5, women and adolescent girls to have better nutrition
• 4.6 million people will get sustainable access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene services
• helping 400,000 children get a decent education
• increased the income of over 800 thousand people, including 240,000 women.

Whilst we do not have disaggregated figures by province, a large part of our focus has been in the East, including in North and South Kivu.