Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding the UK has provided to the UN Relief and Works Agency in each of the last five years.

The amount of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the requested calendar years is given in the table below. Data is published each year in the Statistics on International Development (SID) publication.

Source: based on Statistics for International Development but adjusted as SID is reported in line with OECD reporting directives, which classifies some UNRWA emergency and project funding separately. Therefore, the figures in the table have been adjusted from the SID data for 2018 and 2019 to show £5 million additional funding per year which the UK disbursed for the UNRWA emergency appeal for Gaza. The table has also been adjusted to include an additional £1.9m disbursement to UNRWA in 2015 as part of a CSSF programme in Lebanon. In addition, the 2018 SID data captures a £5m disbursement to UNRWA's Syria Appeal made in 2018.This payment contributed to UNRWA's 2019 appeal and is therefore captured in the 2019 figures above. The figures above reflect actual total UK funding to UNRWA, including emergency appeals.