Developing Countries: Education

(asked on 16th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on education (a) bilaterally and (b) multilaterally in each year since 2015.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 23rd January 2019

The amount that the Department for International Development has spent on education, bilaterally and multilaterally, is summarised in the table below. The multilateral imputed expenditure includes a small portion from other government departments, which is not disaggregated.

Spend on Education: Multilateral and Bilateral

£ thousands

2015

2016

2017

Imputed UK Share of Multilateral Net ODA Education

227,181

259,001

-

DFID Bilateral ODA Education

508,540

874,190

698,961

Source: Statistics on International Development

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