Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on water and sanitation projects in each year since 2005-06.

Details of the total expenditure on health are published in Statistics on International Development (SID) which is available in the House Library or online at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics. DFID’s reporting of aid flows is in line with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rules. DFID started reporting against a specific family planning code in 2008/09. Details of DFID’s spending on multi-sectoral programmes which deliver nutrition results are published in http://devinit.org/report/dfids-aid-spending-nutrition-2010-2012/. Figures for direct bilateral spend on health, nutrition, family planning, education and water & sanitation are reproduced below:

When DFID or other UK government departments provide core contributions in support of multilateral organisations, we do not break down by sector. However, there are a number of multilaterals organisations that are focussed on Health, Education and Water & Sanitation. Details of the contributions from DFID to each multilateral organisation can be found online.