Speeches

Wes Streeting – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Wes Streeting on 2016-06-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is providing to Sri Lanka.

Sir Desmond Swayne

DFID’s bilateral aid to Sri Lanka ended in 2006 when middle income status was achieved. We continue to support them through multilateral organisations and through centrally managed DFID programmes. In 2014 these amounted to at least £28m.