Overseas Aid
(asked on 17th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what, if any, change there has been to the proportion of UK Official Development Assistance spent by (1) the Department for International Development, and (2) the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in country offices over the last 12 months.
Between 2017 and 2018, the latest year for which these figures are available, the Department for International Development’s (DFID) country-specific Official Development Assistance (ODA) share of total DFID ODA decreased by 5.9 percentage points from 39.2% to 33.3%. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) country specific ODA share decreased by 1.1 percentage points over the same time period, from 34.5% to 33.4% (see table below).
DFID and FCO Country-Specific ODA as a proportion of total ODA
millions
| 2017 |
| 2018 | |||
| DFID | FCO |
| DFID | FCO | |
Total Single Country Specific ODA | 3,961 | 216 |
| 3,630 | 212 | |
% of Total ODA | 39.2% | 34.5% |
| 33.3% | 33.4% | |
Total ODA | 10,104 | 627 |
| 10,897 | 633 | |
Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2018.
Other ODA spend can be separated into two groups: (i) ODA spend that benefits a region or a group of developing countries e.g. centrally-funded research and (ii) core contributions to ODA-eligible Multilaterals, such as the Food and Agricultural Organisation.
As DFID and FCO share of ODA has reduced, ODA spent by other departments has increased. All ODA is subject to the same rules, set in legislation and by the OECD DAC.