Coronavirus: Overseas Aid

(asked on 30th November 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 3rd December 2020

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.

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