Liberia: Overseas Aid

International Development written question – answered at on 26 February 2009.

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Photo of Mark Oaten Mark Oaten Liberal Democrat, Winchester

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid the UK has provided for Liberia (a) bilaterally and (b) through the United Nations in each of the last five years; and how much is planned to be provided for Liberia in the next spending period for which figures are available.

Photo of Michael Foster Michael Foster Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for International Development

Details on the UK's bilateral expenditure and imputed share of multilateral official development assistance (ODA) are contained in the DFID publication "Statistics on International Development". This publication is available from the Library and online at:

www.dfid.gov.uk

Relevant figures are produced in the following table.

UK expenditure in Liberia, 2003-04 to 2007-08
£000
Total UK bilateral expenditure UK imputed share of UN expenditure
2003-04 7,238 235
2004-05 8,455 761
2005-06 6,081 652
2006-07 8,364 2,106
2007-08 7,608 3,143

Details on DFID's annual allocation of resources are available in annex 2 of the DFID publication "Development: Making it Happen", DFID's 2008 annual report. This publication is available online at:

www.dfid.gov.uk or from the Library. Relevant figures for the next three years are reproduced in the following table.

DFID Liberia Programme allocations
£000
2008-09 10,000
2009-10 10,000
2010-11 10,000

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