Speeches

Mary Creagh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2015 to Question 222395, what proportion of UK Official Development Assistance was allocated to fragile and conflict-affected states in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12.

Justine Greening

The most recent available figures for UK official development assistance (ODA) show the following proportions were spent in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS):

Year

% UK ODA Spent in FCAS (Bilateral and multilateral)

2010

39%

2011

44%

2012

42%

2013

43%

ODA spend is calculated on a calendar-year basis; provisional figures for 2014 UK ODA spend will be published in the spring.