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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Overseas Aid

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 202799, tabled on 17 December 2018

Question

Mr Bob Seely
Conservative
Isle of Wight
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has allocated to programmes overseas that is not part of Official Development Assistance in each of the last three years; and how much such funding his Department plans to allocate in each of the next two years.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Chris Skidmore
Conservative
Kingswood
Commons

Answered on

10 January 2019

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s expenditure in the last three years on overseas programmes that are not part of Official Development Assistance is set out in the table below.

2016-17 Actual

2017-18 Actual

2018-19 Year-to-Date

2018-19 Forecast

£591m

£575m

£355m

£515m

Funding for 2019/20 and periods covered by the Spending Review 19 have not yet been agreed.

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