PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Overseas Aid (29 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what value and proportion of spending by his Department that was counted as Official Development Assistance was subject to the provisions of the International Development Act 2002 in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Stephen Doughty (Labour)

In the last three calendar years, my Department has spent £1,429,000 on Official Development Assistance (ODA). On an annual basis this can be broken down as £700,000 in 2013, zero in 2014 and £729,000 in 2015. For the years with expenditure this represents 0.01% and 0.05% of resource expenditure respectively.

It should be noted that ODA is calculated on a calendar year basis, and my Department's expenditure figures are on a Financial Year basis (Apr-Mar). As such, these percentages are indicative.

Answered by:
Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Conservative)
9 March 2016