The UK has committed the following humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in this financial year to date: £1 million for drought mitigation; £1.2 million to support HALO Trust's de-mining programme; and £30,000 to provide food and other essential items like soap and blankets for 3,000 internally displaced families in Helmand.
Final expenditure data for 2006-07 are not yet available. Provisional data will be released in June, prior to final estimates being published in statistics on international development in October. Data for the five years to 2005-06 were published in table 12.3 of the latest edition of “Statistics on International Development 2001-02 to 2005-06”, copies of which are available in the Library. The figure for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in 2005-06 was £3.39 million.