§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of her Department's budget will be paid to NGOs based(a) in the UK and (b) overseas in the current financial year. [56223]
§ Clare ShortInformation on Department for International Development (DFID) expenditure through UK NGOs in the current financial year is not yet available. Information on such expenditure in 1997–98 is currently being collated and will be available later this year.
The total expenditure through UK NGOs for 1996–97 was £166.757 million; 7.7 per cent. of the total DFID aid budget.
Information on spending through overseas NGOs is not held separately, but is included in DFID's bilateral country programme expenditure. Full details appear in "British Aid Statistics", a copy of which is in the Library of the House.