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EU Aid: Commonwealth

Volume 465: debated on Wednesday 24 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the total amount of EU aid to Commonwealth countries was in each of the last five years; and what proportion was attributable to the UK in each year. (160047)

Official Development Assistance (ODA) from EU member states and the EC to Commonwealth countries over the last five years is laid out in the following table:

Table 1: ODA to Commonwealth Countries from EU members and EC, 2001-05

£ million

EU Members and EC ODA to Commonwealth Countries

UK ODA to Commonwealth Countries

2001

3,333

943

2002

3,848

830

2003

3,683

1,117

2004

3,667

1,172

20051

6,982

2,243

1 In 2005, Nigeria received large sums of debt relief of £3,024 million from DAC EU members, of which £1,136 million from UK.