Overseas Aid
(asked on 14th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much development aid the UK reported to the Development Assistance Committee for the last two years for which figures are available, broken down by (1) humanitarian and development aid, and (2) the most recent estimate of humanitarian aid to Syria; and how this compares with aid provided by (a) the USA, and (b) Russia.
The latest available figures published for all donors by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are for 2013 and 2014. Final data for 2015 will be available by the end of December. The UK has published its 2015 ODA in Statistics on International Development 2016, which includes £258 million for Syria ($394 million, using the Official Exchange Rate conversion published by the World Bank).
(Figures in US dollars, millions, as reported by the DAC) | UK | US | Russia | |||
2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | |
Total Official Development Assistance (ODA) | 10,959.773 | 11,838.009 | 27,049.099 | 28,263.415 | Not reported | Not reported |
Of which is humanitarian aid | 1,291.019 | 1,842.209 | 4,887.332 | 6,001.323 | Not reported | Not reported |
Of which is humanitarian aid for Syria | 197.300 | 163.853 | 738.079 | 596.267 | Not reported | Not reported |
Russia is not a member of the DAC but has provided voluntarily its total ODA for 2015, which includes $22 million for Syria. However, a comparison with the UK and US cannot be made at this stage because the DAC has not yet published 2015 data for the UK or US.