Development Aid
(asked on 17th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of UK Official Development Assistance was spent in the UK in (1) 2023, (2) 2024, and (3) 2025.
Data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend for 2023 and 2024 is published in Statistics on International Development (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-oda-spend-2024), including breakdowns by country, sector, and type of aid.
Table 1 below shows UK ODA funding provided to Sudan through bilateral humanitarian assistance in 2023 and 2024. Table 2 shows ODA spent in the UK in the same years. Figures for 2025 and 2026 will be published in the usual way in due course.
Table 1. Humanitarian ODA to Sudan, 2023 and 2024
2023 £ million | 2024 £ million | |
Humanitarian ODA to Sudan | 35.8 | 121.3 |
Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK ODA spend 2024
Table 2. ODA Spent in the UK, 2023 and 2024
2023 % of total UK ODA | 2024 % of total UK ODA | |
In-donor Expenditure [Note 1] | 33.3% | 26.0% |
Note 1. In-donor expenditure includes an estimate of the ODA-eligible part of FCDO's and other departments' administration costs, refugees living in the UK spend, raising development awareness and costs of UK experts and UK scholarships.
Source: Statistics on International Development: Final UK ODA spend 2024.