To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount of UK Overseas Development Aid was spent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in each of the last ten years.
Answered on
22 March 2018
The UK Government has provided £1.45 billion of bilateral Overseas Development Assistance to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2007. This is not delivered through the government of the DRC and is based on humanitarian need and ongoing development projects.
The table below shows this broken down by year:
Year | £m |
2007 | 60,309 |
2008 | 106,588 |
2009 | 144,385 |
2010 | 162,379 |
2011 | 238,346 |
2012 | 138,944 |
2013 | 161,640 |
2014 | 166,594 |
2015 | 142,721 |
2016 | 129,546 |
Total | 1,452,052 |
Source: Statistics on International Development 2017 (see below)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/659845/Table4Aa.ods