Speeches

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the financial support her Department has provided to the United Nations Childrens’ Fund in each of the last five years.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The core and non-core contributions (in £ millions) made by DFID to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from 2009/10 until 2013/14 can be found in the table below. These figures are taken from DFID’s internal data sources and DFID’s publication ‘Statistics on International Development’.

Delivery Channel

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

DFID core funding to UNICEF

21.0

23.6

40.0

40.0

46.0

DFID non-core funding to UNICEF

113.9

127.4

207.1

192.3

270.1

Total DFID funding to UNICEF

134.9

151.0

247.1

232.3

316.1

Data for 2014/15 will be included in the next release of DFID’s ‘Statistics on International Development’ publication. This is due for release in February 2016.