India: Development Aid
(asked on 6th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding her Department provided to UN organisations working in India in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
The FCDO spends some of its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) bilaterally, meaning the destination/sector for the ODA spend is specified, using multilateral agencies as the delivery channel. Table 1 shows the volume of bilateral ODA the FCDO spent through UN agencies between 2016 and 2020, that benefitted India.
The UK also provides core contributions to UN agencies' general budgets, a proportion of which will have benefitted India.
The increase in 2020 reflects funding to help India respond to the COVID pandemic and to provide social protection by helping to build climate-resilient infrastructure.
Table 1: FCDO bilateral ODA channelled through UN Agencies benefitting India, 2016-2020
Year | £ |
2016 | 200,000 |
2017 | 550,000 |
2018 | 450,000 |
2019 | 513,000 |
2020 | 1,746,000 |
Source: Statistics on International Development