International Development written question – answered at on 27 January 2011.
Jeremy Lefroy
Conservative, Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the aid classified as official development assistance (ODA) provided by UK non-governmental organisations funded through Gift Aid contributions in each year since 2007-08; and what method he used to estimate the proportion of UK ODA attributable to gift aided contributions.
Alan Duncan
The Minister of State, Department for International Development
The level of official development assistance provided by UK non-governmental organisations funded through Gift Aid is published in the Department for International Development's (DFID) annual publication "Statistics on International Development" which is available on the DFID website and in the Library of the House. The relevant figures for 2007-08 to 2009-10 are shown in the following table. These figures are estimated using returns provided by relevant organisations to DFID's Voluntary Agency Survey, conducted annually.
| Financial year | £000 |
| 2007-08 | 43,672 |
| 2008-09 | 43,857 |
| 2009-10 | 43,891 |
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