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Bangladesh: Education

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 36704, tabled on 5 May 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK development aid to Bangladesh has been spent on education in each year since 2000; and what information her Department holds on the proportion the total Bangladesh education budget that UK development aid represents in each of those years.

Answered on

11 May 2016

The table below shows the amount of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent on education in Bangladesh by the United Kingdom through the government, NGOs and civil society.

UK Calendar year

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

UK Spend (£millions)

0

0

7.8

7.7

17.3

28.9

19.6

8.9

UK Calendar year

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

UK Spend (£millions)

22.2

34.6

33.5

50.2

26.5

34.6

33.1

2015 figures will be published later this year.

Details of the total Government of Bangladesh education budget can be found here: http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=1/.

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