Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much has been allocated to the ODA crisis reserve for 2022-23; what proportion of that reserve has been spent up to and including 19 July 2022; and if she will provide a breakdown of what ODA crisis reserve funding has been spent in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.

A total of £30 million has been allocated to the ODA crisis reserve for 2022-23. None of the reserve has been spent to date this financial year. In 2021-22, the ODA crisis reserve funding was spent on responding to: the volcano eruption on St Vincent (£0.7m), Typhoon Rai in the Philippines (£1m), the earthquake in Haiti (£1m) and crises in Tigray (£6m), Somalia (£8m), South Sudan (£3m), Kenya (£1m), Mozambique (£0.8m), the Occupied Palestinian Territories (£3m), and Ukraine (£5.6m).