Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of UK ODA spending has been spent on UN peacekeeping in each of the last eight years.
UK ODA spending as part of our assessed (mandatory) contributions to the UN peacekeeping budget, in each of the last eight years has been: 2010 0.25%; 2011 0.24%; 2012 0.23%; 2013 0.22%; 2014 0.16%; 2015 0.16%; 2016 0.38%; and 2017 data will be published in Autumn 2018 in the "Statistics on International Development: Final UK aid spend 2017" report.
The UK has also given other voluntary ODA funding to UN peacekeeping on a case by case basis.
UK's ODA Assessed Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Missions as a proportion of total UK ODA 2010-2016
| Total UK ODA (£m) | Total core contributions to UN Peacekeeping Missions (£m) | Proportion of total UK ODA |
2010 | 8,529 | 21.4 | 0.25% |
2011 | 8,629 | 21.0 | 0.24% |
2012 | 8,802 | 20.3 | 0.23% |
2013 | 11,407 | 25.6 | 0.22% |
2014 | 11,700 | 19.1 | 0.16% |
2015 | 12,138 | 19.1 | 0.16% |
2016 | 13,377 | 50.9 | 0.38% |
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Source: Statistics on International Development 2017 | | | |