Military Aid
(asked on 12th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made by the Department for International Development to the Ministry of Defence in each of the last five years in connection with any operation or other humanitarian work conducted by armed forces or other Ministry of Defence personnel, or the provision of equipment or transport for such work; and in each case, what were those operations.
Since 2009 the Department for International Development has reimbursed the Ministry of Defence the following amounts for services and supplies provided by the British Armed Forces in support of humanitarian and disaster-relief operations:
Year of activity | Emergency | Amount reimbursed by DFID to MOD |
2009 | Padang Earthquake | £185,000 |
2010 | Haiti Earthquake | £620,000 |
2010 | Pakistan Floods | £615,000 |
2013 | Philippines | £8,950,000 |
2014 | Iraq | £1,967,000 |
2014-ongoing | Ebola response in Sierra Leone | £28,000,000 |