HC Deb 17 September 2004 vol 424 c1781W
Mr. Wood

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much overseas aid the UK has provided to assist relief efforts following natural disasters in each of the last five years. [189487]

Hilary Benn

DFID does not keep statistics distinguishing between humanitarian aid provided for natural disasters and humanitarian aid in other contexts centrally; this information could not be obtained without incurring a disproportionate cost. DFID's total humanitarian assistance in the last five years was as follows:

Humanitarian assistance
Total (£ million)
1999–2000 314
2000–01 297
2001–02 288
2002–03 374
2003–041 381
1Provisional.

These figures include UK contributions to European Community Humanitarian programmes and UK contributions to UN humanitarian agencies.

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