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British Overseas Territories: Overseas Aid

Volume 462: debated on Monday 25 June 2007

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Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what financial aid and assistance each British Overseas Territory received from the UK Government in 2005-06. (145544)

Mr. Thomas

The total amount of financial aid and other DFID bilateral assistance to the British overseas territories in 2005-06 is shown in table 1 as follows.

Table 1: DFID bilateral expenditure in British overseas territory 2005-06

£000

Territory

Financial aid

Other DFID assistance

Total

Anguilla

5

890

895

Gibraltar

—

2

2

Montserrat

11,209

1,408

12,617

Pitcairn Island

646

1,936

2,582

St. Helena and Dependencies

9,788

3,775

13,563

Turks and Caicos Islands

-161

518

357

Note:

Negatives represent accounting adjustments, not a net flow to DFID.

British overseas territories may also receive aid from regional programmes and projects funded by DFID.