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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 28139, tabled on 23 February 2016

Question

Stephen Doughty
Labour
Cardiff South and Penarth
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much and what proportion of his Department's overseas development assistance budget his Department spent was subject to the International Development Act 2002 in each of the last three years.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Mr David Lidington
Conservative
Aylesbury
Commons

Answered on

29 February 2016

All of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocation has been subject to the International Development Act since its enactment. This has amounted to: £321 million in financial year 2013/14; £344 million in financial year 2014/15 and is estimated to be over £400 million for the financial year 2015/16.

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