Food Aid

(asked on 16th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the UK's annual aid budget was spent on direct food aid globally in 2015.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 23rd March 2017

In 2015 over £300 million of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) delivered by DFID was directed towards food aid. A further £200 million was delivered through multi-lateral organisations that work in humanitarian response to tackle poverty and hunger and £80 million directed towards Basic Nutrition programmes and Food Aid for Livestock.

In addition in 2015 over £600 million was spent on Material Relief for humanitarian responses, which includes cash transfers. This provides flexible assistance to those struggling in humanitarian crises, enabling them to buy food and meet the medical and shelter needs of themselves and their dependents.

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