PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Energy and Climate Change: Development Aid (23 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much and what proportion of her Department's overseas development assistance budget her Department spent was subject to the International Development Act 2002 in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has spent the following amounts of Official Development Assistance (ODA) over the past three years

Year	2013	2014	2015
Total ODA	£408.4m	£192.4m	£336m
Amount under the International Development Act 2002	£402.8m	£187.7m	£328.2m
% under the International Development Act 2002	98.6%	97.5%	97.6%

The spend that is under the International Development Act 2002 comes from the UK’s International Climate Fund (ICF) and the ODA-eligible proportion of the annual subscription to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The remaining DECC ODA spend is the ODA-eligible proportion of the annual subscriptions relating to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This spend is governed by the Supply and Appropriation Act; we seek to ensure this expenditure is consistent with the aims of the International Development Act.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
26 February 2016