PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Overseas Aid (24 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's spending was in Overseas Development Aid in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) the first 10 months of 2015-16; and what the recipient countries of that aid were.

Asked by:
Wendy Morton (Conservative)

Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) is recorded and reported on a calendar year basis. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is supporting economic development and social welfare in developing countries through a number of programmes. The Newton Fund builds science and innovation partnerships between the UK and 15 emerging economies; and the new Global Challenges Research Fund will help to put the UK at the forefront of research into some of the world's greatest challenges. BIS spent £48.5m in 2013, and £79m in 2014. This spend is broken down by recipient countries in the table. Where spend cannot be attributed to an individual country, it is attributed to appropriate groups. Details on 2015 calendar year ODA spend will be published in the National Statistics publication ‘Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of Gross National Income (GNI)’ on 1 April 2016, at a department level. Country level ODA information will be published in Statistics on International Development due for release in October 2016.

Department for Business Innovation and Skills Overseas Development Aid 2013 to 2014
	Amounts Extended (£thousands)
Country	2013	2014
Africa, regional	3,987	9,840
Asia, regional	179	268
Brazil	65	180
Burkina Faso	180	182
Chile		30
China	913	2,885
Colombia		193
Developing countries, unspecified	19,868	33,968
Egypt		79
Ethiopia	64	86
Gambia	9,610	9,347
Ghana	566	598
India	1,322	5,407
Indonesia	190	198
Kazakhstan		298
Kenya	1,714	2,342
Lesotho		130
Malawi	156	1,819
Malaysia	220	226
Mali		161
Mauritania	169	118
Mexico	202	420
Nigeria	52	184
Oceania, regional	70	59
Papua New Guinea	860	522
Peru	199	190
Philippines		10
Sao Tome & Principe		95
Senegal		65
South Africa	1,701	1,573
South Asia, regional	327	641
South of Sahara, regional	441
Sri Lanka		14
Sudan		449
Tanzania	535	662
Thailand		12
Turkey		11
Uganda	4,767	5,547
Vietnam		12
Zambia	188	204
Total	48,544	79,027

Answered by:
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Conservative)
5 April 2016