PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Developing Countries: Education (23 January 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2020 to Question 3741 on Developing Countries: Education, how much of the £7.08 billion was spent bilaterally in each year from 2009 to 2018; and what the top 10 countries were in which that funding was spent.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

Distribution of the £7.08 billion spent bilaterally on education between 2009 and 2018 is listed below:

2009	£523m
2010	£482m
2011	£649m
2012	£620m
2013	£905m
2014	£820m
2015	£651m
2016	£961m
2017	£785m
2018	£686m

These amounts include contributions which cannot be disaggregated by country, some of which is channelled through multilateral programmes such as the Global Partnership for Education and Education Cannot Wait.

Top ten country spend over this time period is as below:

1	Pakistan
2	India
3	Bangladesh
4	Malawi
5	China
6	Nigeria
7	Ghana
8	Ethiopia
9	West Bank & Gaza Strip
10	South Africa

Answered by:
Andrew Stephenson (Conservative)
30 January 2020