Department for International Development written question – answered at on 24 October 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the amount of funding allocated to UK-based organisations spent on (a) overseas aid and (b) administrative costs within Wales in the last five years.
UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) data is collected and reported according to a standard international classification produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Following this classification, the amount of UK ODA delivered by UK and other donor country NGOs in the last five years[1] is:
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Net ODA | £488m | £662m | £759m | £772m | £710m |
The latest data is for calendar year 2016 and figures for 2017 will be published this autumn.
ODA flows are provided by official agencies and their executive agencies. The amount of UK ODA provided by the Welsh Government and delivered by donor-based NGOs is:
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Net ODA | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m | £1m |
Source: Statistics on International Development
The information for (b) is not held in the form requested and can only be collated at disproportionate cost.
[1] Donor-based NGOs cover UK based NGOs as well as the NGOs of other donors. The figures included above will mainly consist of UK based NGOs however there are some amounts included for other donor NGOs delivering UK ODA, such as UK contributions to the Norway-based, Norwegian Refugee Council.
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