Development Aid: Disability
(asked on 18th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance his Department has spent on disability-specific projects in each year since 2010; and what proportion of total official development assistance spending in those years was spent on disability-specific projects.
Answered by
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) tracks spending on disability-specific official development assistance (ODA) programmes through the OECD-DAC disability policy marker.
The UK was one of the first countries to adopt a disability policy marker, introducing it in 2018, and was central to the OECD-DAC adopting it in 2019. The marker has been used throughout FCDO since 2021.
The table below provides FCDO spending on disability-specific ODA programmes and total bilateral ODA spending from 2016 onwards.
Department | Total bilateral1 ODA (£ million) (a) | Bilateral ODA spent on disability-specific programmes (£ million) (b) | Percentage of bilateral ODA spent through disability-specific programmes (c) |
20162 | |||
Department for International Development | 6,369.7 | 2.0 | 0.0% |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 479.6 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
Total | 6,849.3 | 2.0 | 0.0% |
20172 | |||
Department for International Development | 6,312.8 | 6.3 | 0.1% |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 594.6 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
Total | 6,907.4 | 6.3 | 0.1% |
2018 | |||
Department for International Development | 6,352.9 | 6.7 | 0.1% |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 603.4 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
Total | 6,956.3 | 6.7 | 0.1% |
2019 | |||
Department for International Development | 7,063.5 | 19.6 | 0.3% |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 642.3 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
Total | 7,705.7 | 19.6 | 0.3% |
2020 | |||
Department for International Development | 6,362.9 | 22.4 | 0.4% |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office | 559.6 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
Total | 6,922.5 | 22.4 | 0.3% |
2021 | |||
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office | 4,485.3 | 16.2 | 0.4% |
2022 | |||
Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office | 4,607.5 | 19.0 | 0.4% |
Footnotes
1. Following the OECD-DAC guidelines, the disability policy marker cannot be applied to core multilateral ODA. Core multilateral ODA has, therefore, been omitted from the table.
2. DFID introduced the disability inclusion marker in 2018. Figures for disability-specific ODA spending in 2016 and 2017 have been estimated by retrospectively applying the marker to programmes that were running prior to 2018 and marked as being disability-specific in 2018.