Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reason her Department's bilateral aid spending on (a) human development and (b) economic development declined in financial year 2017-18 compared with 2016-17.

DFID’s bilateral spending on human development remained the same between 2016/17 and 2017/18 at £1.9bn. Bilateral spending on economic development rose from £1.7bn in 2016/17 to £1.9bn in 2017/18. The data are available on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) website.