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Belarus: Development Aid

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 146623, tabled on 24 March 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to figure 5 in Statistics on International Development: final UK aid spend 2020, how much Official Development Assistance Belarus received in the financial years (a) 2020-2021 and (b) 2021-22; and how much of that money was spent on research and development in each of those financial years.

Answered on

30 March 2022

The Statistics on International Development (SID) National Statistics report, published on the gov.uk website, provides an overview of all official UK spend on Official Development Assistance (ODA). ODA is an international measure and is collected and reported on a calendar year basis. UK bilateral ODA to ODA-eligible European countries is reported in Table A4d. In 2020, non-state and other non-government actors, who are working on behalf of the people of Belarus, received £1.5 million of UK bilateral ODA. None of this funding was classed as Research & Development though small amounts of funding for analysis and evaluation is often included in programme and project work.

Figures for 2021 will be available in the Autumn when FCDO publishes "Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2021".

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