Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's humanitarian aid budget was disbursed for (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) three years or more in each of the last three years.

Due to the nature of Humanitarian Responses, DFID cannot always allocate humanitarian budgets in advance. However, over the last three budget periods DFID’s spend on humanitarian aid was allocated as follows (rounded to the nearest 5%):

• 65 per cent to projects with an operational period of 3 years or more
• 30 per cent was to projects with an operational period of two years

and

• 5 per cent was to projects with an operational period of one year.