Department for Work and Pensions: Overseas Aid

(asked on 10th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much Official Development Assistance her Department was allocated in the financial years (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21; and what estimate her Department has made of the amount of Official Development Assistance her Department will be allocated for the financial year 2021-22.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 25th February 2021

Official Development Assistance allocations are included in the settlement letter that the department receives from Her Majesties Treasury.

The annual amount allocated to the department was £4 million in 2019/20; £6.1 million in 2020/21 and; £6.1million for 2021/22.

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