Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding was allocated to basic health in each of the last ten years.

Information on Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding allocated to the health sector in each of the last ten years is available through the Statistics on International Development (SID) reports. These are published on the gov.uk website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statistics-on-international-development.

In 2019, we spent around £1.4 billion on bilateral programmes to improve health outcomes for the poorest and most vulnerable. The UK also makes significant contributions to global health through multilateral organisations. Approximately £790 million of imputed multilateral expenditure was spent on the health sector in 2019. The 2020 figures on health spend will be published in Autumn 2021.