Overseas Aid
(asked on 23rd January 2015) - 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 projects in conflict states in each year since 2005-06.
The Department for International Development has spent the following amounts of official development assistance (ODA) in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) since 2005:
Year | DFID Bilateral ODA in Fragile & Conflict Affected States (£m) | Substantial Debt Relief to FCAS (£m) |
2005 | £882 | £3,288 |
2006 | £2,430 | £2,147 |
2007 | £1,246 | |
2008 | £1,450 | |
2009 | £1,772 | |
2010 | £1,831 | |
2011 | £2,200 | |
2012 | £2,183 | |
2013 | £2,835 |
No distinction is made between those that are fragile and those experiencing active conflict for the purposes of calculating spend. I have therefore chosen to answer these two questions together. DFID recognises 55 countries as being fragile or conflict-affected. The list is revised every two years. ODA spend is calculated on a calendar-year basis; provisional figures for 2014 UK ODA spend will be published in the spring. In addition, DFID funds multilateral organisations, global programmes and NGOs delivering programmes in FCAS.