Developing Countries: Sanitation

(asked on 27th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial commitment they have made in the development aid budget to improving sanitation in the last four years; and what percentage of the development aid budget it represents.


Answered by
Baroness Northover Portrait
Baroness Northover
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

Please see the table below for the UK’s financial commitments to the development aid budget to improve water supply and sanitation for the last four years (statistics are only given for broad sector rather than by individual intervention):

Year

Spend in £

Spend as %

2010-2013

£444m

1.9%

Full details of the UK’s financial commitments to the development aid budget are published annually in ‘Statistics on International Development’ (SID). The most recent version, for 2014 is available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2014 .

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