Overseas Aid

International Development written question – answered at on 4 May 2011.

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Photo of Rob Wilson Rob Wilson Conservative, Reading East

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the cost to the public purse was of the UK's official development assistance in the last year for which figures are available.

Photo of Alan Duncan Alan Duncan The Minister of State, Department for International Development

UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2010 is estimated at £8.4 billion. Details of estimated 2010 ODA are published on the Department for International Development (DFID) website at:

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Finance-and-performance/Aid-Statistics/

Final UK ODA figures will be published later in the year in DFID's publication ‘Statistics on International Development’ which will also be posted on DFID's website.

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