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Overseas Aid

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much UK aid was given to (a) Guinea-Bissau, (b) Guinea, (c) Sierra Leone, (d) Liberia, (e) Mali, (f) Mauritania and (g) Senegal in (i) 2005 and (ii) 2004. (141750)

The figures are set out in the following tables:

UK Bilateral Aid

£000

Destination Name

2004

2005

Guinea

1,738

811

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

8981

4150

Mali

200

716

Mauritania

281

Senegal

4,984

3,802

Sierra Leone

3,3254

31,159

Imputed UK Share of Multilateral Net ODA/OA by institution for 2004 and 2005:

£000

Country

EC

UN

World Bank

Other Multilateral

Total

2004

Guinea

2,602

1,030

850

169

4,650

Guinea-Bissau

978

313

606

152

2,048

Liberia

2,102

503

-

182

2,787

Mali

8,088

840

1,653

2,552

13,133

Mauritania

3,330

372

985

456

5,143

Senegal

4,079

624

3,930

3,949

12,583

Sierra Leone

4,477

1,257

927

2,459

9,120

2005

Guinea

1,062

1,097

2,089

-117

4,131

Guinea-Bissau

1,135

384

944

54

2,517

Liberia

3,699

1,248

-

375

5,322

Mali

9,106

759

8,085

871

18,821

Mauritania

1,033

580

3,195

-53

4,755

Senegal

2,288

749

12,551

991

16,578

Sierra Leone

5,978

1,328

3,785

644

11,736

UK funding to multilateral institutions cannot be directly attributed to any country; the estimates above are imputed shares based on the UK's total funding for each institution, and that institution's distribution of official development assistance (ODA) and official aid each year.

ODA is defined as flows administered with the promotion of economic development and welfare of developing countries as their main objective, that are concessional in character and convey a grant element of at least 25 per cent. Aid to countries on Part 1 of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list of aid recipients is eligible to be recorded as ODA. Official aid (OA) has the same concessional and qualitative features as ODA but covers aid to countries on Part 2 of the DAC list of recipients. (Note: From 2005 Part 2 of the DAC list of recipients ceased to exist and aid to countries on a new combined list of DAC list of recipients of official development assistance is eligible to be recorded as ODA).

The list of multilateral organisations used to produce this table is not exhaustive; only multilaterals who provide the DAC with detailed information about their distribution of funds, and to whom the UK provided funds, were analysed in the production of this table.

Negatives represent accounting adjustments, not a net flow to the UK; zero figures are indicated with a dash.