Overseas Aid

(asked on 24th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's spending was on Overseas Development Aid in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) the first 10 months of 2015-16; and what the recipient countries of that aid were.


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David Lidington Portrait
David Lidington
This question was answered on 2nd March 2016

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Official Development Assistance spending was:

in financial year (FT) 2013-14 - £321 million;
in FT 2014-15 - £344 million;
and in the first 10 months of FY 2015-16 - £260 million

We have provided ODA funds to all countries on the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list except for Central African Republic, Djibouti, Sao Tome and Principe, Micronesia, Tokelau, Gabon, Niue, Palau, Wallis and Futuna. The DAC list can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/documentupload/DAC%20List%20of%20ODA%20Recipients%202014%20final.pdf.

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