Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Foreign and Commonwealth Office spent on Overseas Development Assistance between April 2015 and March 2016, and what measures were used to ensure high levels of transparency in how that money was spent.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was allocated £422.9 million of Official Development Assistance funds to spend in Financial Year 2015-2016. When finalised, the figures will be published on the FCO website and registered on the UK data portal and on the International Aid Transparency Initiative portal.