HC Deb 08 February 1999 vol 325 c34W
Mr. Streeter

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of her Department's budget in the year 1997–98 was paid(a) directly to other Governments, (b) to non-Governmental organisations outside of the United Kingdom and (c) to the EU. [69226]

Clare Short

The information is as follows:

  1. (a) Amounts paid directly to recipient country governments (that is, financial aid, programme aid, aid and trade provision, and debt relief) totalled £257 million in 1997–98. This represented 25 per cent. of DFID's bilateral programme expenditure in that year (12 per cent. of total expenditure).
  2. (b) Payments to non-governmental organisations outside the UK are not separately identifiable in the statistics for 1997–98.
  3. (c) Our contribution to the EC in 1997–98 was £536 million which represented 56 per cent. of DFID's multilateral programme expenditure in 1997–98 (26 per cent. of total expenditure).

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