Development Aid
(asked on 7th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of Official Development Assistance was spent outside the United Kingdom in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, (5) 2023, and (6) 2024.
The official source of data on UK Official Development Assistance is Statistics on International Development (SID). Table 1 shows the volume and percentage of UK ODA that is estimated to have been spent outside the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2023. Data for 2024 will be available via Statistics on International Development: Final UK ODA Spend 2024 in Autumn 2025.
Table 1: Volume and Percentage of UK ODA estimated to have been spent outside the UK (1), 2019 - 2023
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
ODA spend outside UK (£millions) | 13,791 | 12,959 | 9,527 | 8,320 | 10,238 |
Total ODA (£millions) | 15,176 | 14,477 | 11,423 | 12,786 | 15,344 |
% of ODA spend outside UK | 90.9% | 89.5% | 83.4% | 65.1% | 66.7% |
Source: Statistics on International Development
1. Spend outside the UK has excluded these categories of in-donor spend: Refugees/asylum seekers in donor country; administrative costs not included elsewhere; private sector instrument intra-governmental transfers; scholarships/training in donor country; donor country personnel; development awareness.
2. There may be a portion of spend in the other types of aid which has been spent in the UK, for the benefit of developing countries, which can't be separately identified.