To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of the UK’s aid to the developing world was handled by EU institutions in the last period for which figures are available. (131002)

The proportion of the UK’s aid to the developing world channelled through the EC over the last five fiscal years, for which figures are available, is set out in the following table:

These figures are based on multilateral aid channelled through the EC.

The breakdown of Multilateral Aid through the EC is published in Table 16 and Gross Public Expenditure on Development in Table 3 of ‘Statistics on International Development 2001-02—2005-06’, a copy of which is available in the Library.