Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of development assistance to Libya in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016 and (d) 2017.
The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to help stabilise Libya and to tackle the threat from Daesh and the migration crisis. Figures for total UK bilateral Overseas Development Assistance to Libya are published annually in the Statistics on International Development. In 2014 total bilateral ODA was £28.6m, in 2015 £10.4m, in 2016 £14.4m. Final figures for 2017 will be published later this year.