PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Turkey: Overseas Aid (31 January 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance her Department has allocated to Turkey in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2019; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Answer
DFID provided the following direct Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Turkey in calendar years 2015, 2016 and 2017. DFID’s final ODA spend figures in Turkey for 2018 will be published in Statistics on International Development this autumn. Spend figures for 2019 will be published in 2020.
Year | DFID ODA to Turkey, £ million |
2015 | 1.3 |
2016 | 85.5 |
2017 | 128.4 |
Source: Statistics on International Development
The increase in funding between 2015 and 2017 represents DFID’s contribution to the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey.
Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
6 February 2019
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