Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which departments of the former Foreign and Commonwealth Office and former Department for International Development have been aligned to create her Department's new Western Balkans Department; which three Official Development Assistance (ODA) programmes administered through that new Department are in receipt of the highest values of funding in the financial year 2021-22; and what the value of that funding is for each of those ODA programmes.

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office's Western Balkans Department comprises the former Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Western Balkans Department and the Western Balkans Programme Unit, which includes staff who previously worked in a Department for International Development and FCO Joint Unit delivering programming in the Western Balkans. For financial year 2021-22 the three programmes administered through Western Balkans Department with the highest value allocations are as follows:

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) Stability Programme
CSSF Media, Cyber and Defence Programme
Good Governance Fund

Programme level funding is regularly updated on DevTracker. Final country data is published in the Statistics for International Development each year.