Development Aid
(asked on 14th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the cost of assisting refugees within the UK is removed, what proportion of the UK's Gross National Income is spent on Official Development Assistance.
Answered by
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
The latest data available is the provisional data for 2021 UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) (see table 1). Final figures for 2021 UK ODA spend will be published on 23rd November 2022. Provisional and final official UK ODA spend data for 2022 will be published as normal in the Spring and Autumn of 2023 respectively.
Table 1. UK (Gross National Income) GNI estimates, UK Net ODA and ODA: GNI ratios including and excluding refugees in donor countries; 2021
UK GNI £million | Total UK ODA £million | Refugees in Donor Countries (IDRC) £million | ODA/GNI % | ODA/GNI excl. IDRC % |
| 2,305,142 | 11,496 | 898 | 0.50 | 0.46 |
Source:
Statistics on International Development, Provisional UK Aid Spend 2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-provisional-uk-aid-spend-2021
OECD DAC: ODA Levels in 2021- Preliminary data
https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/ODA-2021-summary.pdf