Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Overseas Aid
(asked on 20th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much Official Development Assistance his Department has disbursed in (a) Least Developed, (b) Other Low Income, (c) Lower Middle Income and (d) Upper Middle Income countries in each of the last five years.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was formed in July 2016. The data provided here shows the combined BEIS Official Development Assistance (ODA) cash spend position for both Climate ODA and R&D ODA, on a calendar year basis.
Country Type | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
a) LDCs | 21,754,998 | 47,625,316 | 50,249,793 | 55,334,226 | 174,964,333 |
b) Other LICs | 1,516,915 | 9,053,023 | 870,122 | 1,690,737 | 13,130,797 |
c) LMICs | 30,574,472 | 47,217,944 | 76,697,348 | 93,034,109 | 247,523,872 |
d) UMICs | 66,782,481 | 185,059,596 | 164,686,185 | 142,735,916 | 559,264,178 |
Other | 601,816,475 | 476,361,051 | 557,209,148 | 667,036,187 | 2,302,422,861 |
TOTAL | 722,445,342 | 765,316,930 | 849,712,595 | 959,831,174 | 3,297,306,042 |
In the above table, ”Other” covers spend that is categorised as regional / global / multi-country or spend that is unable to be categorised by country. Some of this “Other” spend would likely have been disbursed to the country categories listed in a) – d), but it is not possible to quantify the amount.