Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which government departments' budgets included expenditure counted towards UK Official Development Assistance in 2016.

The Official Development Assistance rules, governed by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, state that spending by all departments on eligible activities can be counted towards UK Official Development Assistance. Therefore, we will count expenditure in 2016 from the following Departments:

The Department for International Development, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, HM Treasury, the Department of Health, the Home Office, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Education, The Department of Work and Pensions, the Department for Transport, The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Ministry of Defence, HM Revenue and Customs and the Office of National Statistics. The Scottish Government and Welsh Government also undertake activity for which expenditure is counted as UK Official Development Assistance.

Provisional spending on ODA for 2016 will be published in Statistics on International Development in Spring 2017.