HC Deb 01 May 2002 vol 384 c854W
Dr. Tonge

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will break down her Department's budget for 2000 and 2001 into the amount allocated for(a) the HIPC initiative, (b) bilateral aid and (c) multilateral aid. [53024]

Clare Short

Detailed figures for expenditure by calendar year are not readily available. Allocations for the 2000–01 and 2001–02 financial years were as follows:

£ million
2000–011 2001–022
Total DFID development budget 3,252.5 3,581.0
of which:
Bilateral assistance 1,388.0 1,734.1
Multilateral assistance 1,776.5 1,737.2
of which:
HIPC initiative 28.0 24.5
Administration and other 88.0 109.7
1Outturn
2Estimated

Source:

DFID departmental report 2002

DFID's expenditure on the HIPC initiative as detailed in the table includes an element of technical co-operation as well as our direct contribution to the HIPC trust fund for the international costs of debt relief. Our share of EC payments to the HIPC trust fund over the past two years amounts to an additional £46.0 million—this expenditure also counts as part of DFID's multilateral assistance, but a breakdown by year is not yet available.

The majority of the Government's expenditure on HIPC is in relation to the cancellation of commercial debts, and is not my Department's responsibility, although it does count towards our oda/GNI figure.