§ Mrs. SpelmanTo ask the Minister of State, Department for International Development which countries receive direct budget support from the Department; how much; and how much total bilateral aid each of these countries receives. [116774]
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§ Hilary BennThe amount and forms of total bilateral assistance that DFID has given to individual countries is shown in tables 7.1 to 7.5 in the DFID publication, Statistics on International Development. The 2002 edition contains figures relating to the years 1997–98 to 2001–02, the latest for which data are available. A copy can be found in the House of Commons Library, or alternately, on DFIDs website at: http:// www.dfid.gov.uk/Pubs/files/SID2002 main.pdf
In these tables, the column headed Programme Aid is non-project financing that benefits the Central Government budget. In the same set of tables, the column titled Total DFID Programme shows the total bilateral assistance given to a country in that year by DFID. In some cases, budget support is given to a particular sector as part of a sector-wide initiative. These figures are included in the Project or Sector Aid column, but the element supporting sector budgets is not separately recorded.