Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of the budget for the international corruption unit within the National Crime Agency came from (a) Official Development Assistance through the UK Action Against Corruption Programme and (b) other non-aid funding sources in each financial year since 2015-16; and what work was funded by non-aid funding sources.

ICU has received the following funding from the FCDO’s UK Action against Corruption programme:

2015-16 £2.82m

2016-17 £3.9m

2017-18 £4.36m

2018-19 £4.4m

2019-20 £4.6m

2020-21 £5.65m

2021-22 £5.02m

2022-23 £5.0m

2023-24 £5.5m

Due to complexities in deriving the figure the National Crime Agency (NCA) is unable to provide a figure for other non-aid funding sources.

Non-aid funding primarily funds operational activity, and due to sensitivities surrounding that activity, the NCA is unable to provide further details.