§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list, by country, the 675W percentage of her Department's funding that goes (a) directly to foreign Governments, (b) to NGOs and charities and (c) directly to the private sector. [110565]
§ Mr. FoulkesDetailed information on a country basis is not available and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.
However, for the 1998–99 financial year, the last year for which figures are available, we estimate that bilateral aid expenditure overall was as follows:
Channel Percentage of 1998–99 bilateral expenditure Governments 37 Private sector 47 NGOs 16 Further detailed information on a country basis, divided into Project or sector aid, Programme aid, Technical Co-operation, Aid and Trade Provision, Grants, Humanitarian Assistance, and Debt Relief, is available in the publication "Statistics on International Development", a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.