Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2020 to Question 76829, how much of the £774 million has been disbursed to multilateral institutions to date.
The £774 million so far committed to combat Covid-19 and to reinforce the global effort to find a vaccine includes funding to multilaterals. Below is a table of the breakdown of this funding, with funding to multilaterals in bold. Of this total, all funding to multilaterals - UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and the WHO - totalling £145 million, has been disbursed.
Institutions | Amount (£ million) |
AU African Union Covid19 Response Fund | 20 |
DEC | 10 |
Expertise & misc. support | 6 |
Red Cross (IFRC /ICRC/Nat Soc) | 55 |
NGO support | 20 |
UNFPA | 10 |
UNHCR | 20 |
UNICEF | 20 |
UNICEF (Education Cannot Wait) | 5 |
UNILEVER coalition | 50 |
WFP | 15 |
WHO | 75 |
FIND | 23 |
Wellcome/Gates Foundation/ Mastercard Therapeutics Accelerator | 40 |
CEPI | 250 |
Joint Initiative for Epidemic Preparedness / Wellcome Trust | 5 |
IMF Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust | 150 |
GRAND TOTAL | 774 |