Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance spending was disbursed in (a) lower-income countries, (b) middle-income countries and (c) the UK in (i) each of the last five financial years and (ii) the 2022-23 financial year.

The official source of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) data is Statistics on International Development (SID) which is published on a calendar year basis. 2021 is the latest year for which data is available.

Table 1 shows the volume of UK region/country specific bilateral ODA disbursed for the benefit of low- and middle-income countries. Table 2 shows the volume of 'in-donor' ODA expenditure. There may be overlap between the figures in Tables 1 and 2 in cases where in-donor expenditure has been made for the benefit of low and middle income countries.

Table 1: UK region/country-specific Bilateral ODA by recipient/beneficiary Income Group, 2017-2021

Table 2: UK 'In-donor' ODA expenditure, 2017-2021

* In-donor expenditure includes part of the ODA-eligible running costs of FCDO and other ODA-spending departments, support to refugees/asylum seekers living in a donor country, development awareness, costs for UK experts and UK scholarships. By definition, it could include a small amount of spend in other donor countries.

Source: Statistics on International Development