Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of the £1.3 billion of new UK aid committed in response to covid-19 since the start of the pandemic has been dispersed.
The UK is one of the largest donors to the international response to the COVID-19 crisis. Of our commitment of up to £1.3 billion, over £700 million has already been dispersed to address the health, humanitarian and socio-economic impacts of the pandemic in the world's poorest countries.
Almost half of our £1.3 billion is the UK's commitment of up to £500 million for the COVAX Advance Market Commitment, which will help supply 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 92 developing countries in 2021.