World Health Organization: Finance

(asked on 9th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much they contributed to the World Health Organization in (1) 2023, (2) 2024, and (3) 2025; and how much they plan to contribute in 2026.


Answered by
Baroness Chapman of Darlington Portrait
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Minister of State (Development)
This question was answered on 17th December 2025

The table below shows UK funding provided to the World Health Organisation in the years 2023 and 2024, and Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided in those same years to support: (a) the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); (b) the United Nations Children's Fund; (c) Water Supply and Sanitation programmes; and (d) Humanitarian Aid.

2023

£ million

2024

£ million

World Health Organisation

173.0

194.0

UNHCR

43.0

77.0

Of which: bilateral

10.0

44.0

Of which: multilateral

33.0

33.0

United Nations Children's Fund

223.4

331.0

Of which: bilateral

183.4

307.0

Water, Supply and Sanitation

36.7

79.6

Humanitarian Aid

884.2

1,453.1

Figures for 2025 and 2026 will be published in the normal way in due course.

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