HC Deb 17 February 2000 vol 344 cc674-5W
Mrs. Gillan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list, by country, the 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. Foulkes

Detailed 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.

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