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Question for Department for International Development

UIN 128679, tabled on 20 February 2018

Question

Sir Patrick McLoughlin
Conservative
Derbyshire Dales
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the international aid budget in each of the last 15 years; and what each amount was as a percentage of GDP.

Answer

Harriett Baldwin
Conservative
West Worcestershire
Commons

Answered on

23 February 2018

In line with the reporting requirements of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) the 0.7% Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment is expressed as a percentage of gross national income rather than gross domestic product. The table below shows net ODA from 2002 to 2016, the latest year for which data is available, alongside of which is the ODA:GNI ratio for these years.

Year

UK Net ODA, £m

ODA:GNI ratio (%) Current methodology in given year

2002

3,281

0.31

2003

3,847

0.34

2004

4,302

0.36

2005

5,926

0.47

2006

6,770

0.51

2007

4,921

0.36

2008

6,356

0.43

2009

7,301

0.51

2010

8,529

0.57

2011

8,629

0.56

2012

8,802

0.57

2013

11,407

0.70

2014

11,700

0.70

2015

12,136

0.70

2016

13,381

0.70

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