Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the Government's total spending on Official Development Assistance was spent on in-donor refugee costs in financial year 2022-23; how much and what proportion of that spending was disbursed by the Home Office; if he will make an estimate of forecast Official Development Assistance spending on in-donor refugee costs in financial year 2023-24; and if he will make an estimate of how much and what proportion of that spending will be disbursed by the Home Office.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Statistics on International Development is the official source of information on Official Development Assistance (ODA). ODA is measured on a calendar year basis rather than financial year. The latest published data is available on GOV.UK in Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2022. Supplementary Table 1 shows that the UK spent £3,686 million on in-donor refugee costs in 2022 on a provisional basis, which was 28.9 per cent of total UK ODA. Of this, the Home Office spent £2,382 million (64.6 percent of the UK's total in-donor refugee costs).
Provisional figures for 2023 will be published as normal in Statistics on International Development in Spring 2024.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-provisional-uk-aid-spend-2022
Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the 2022 International Development Strategy, if she will increase funding for programmes focused on delivering universal, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Answered by Vicky Ford
The Foreign Secretary has said we intend to restore bilateral funding for women and girls, which includes programmes focused on universal, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights. The FCDO is working to complete its business and country planning process as soon as possible, which will allow us to finalise budget allocations, taking account of our Spending Review settlement. We cannot comment on funding allocations until this is finalised.
Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle illicit finance.
Answered by Vicky Ford
Money obtained through corruption or criminality, including that linked to Russia, is not welcome in the UK. This is why the Government is at the forefront of tackling illicit finance, combatting the threat from source to destination.
My department has introduced the toughest possible sanctions in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and sent a clear message that there is no place for stolen and illegitimate wealth from Russia in the UK.