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Development Aid

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 1952, tabled on 14 November 2023

To ask the Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral Official Development Assistance has been spent in each year since 2010.

Answered on

20 November 2023

Data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) is provided in the FCDO "Statistics on International Development (SID)" publication. Table 1 provides a breakdown of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) by bilateral and multilateral channels between 2010 and 2022. This information is also available on GOV.UK.

Table 1: Total UK ODA: by type (bilateral, multilateral), 2010 - 2022 (£ millions)

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Total Bilateral ODA

5,190

5,260

5,560

6,721

6,822

7,662

8,534

8,795

9,229

10,403

9,532

7,234

9,640

Total Multilateral ODA

3,339

3,369

3,242

4,686

4,878

4,473

4,843

5,256

5,313

4,772

4,945

4,189

3,156

Total UK ODA

8,529

8,629

8,802

11,407

11,700

12,136

13,377

14,051

14,542

15,176

14,477

11,423

12,795

Source: Statistics on International Development

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