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Sierra Leone: Overseas Aid

Volume 467: debated on Wednesday 14 November 2007

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Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what financial aid was given to Sierra Leone in (a) 2002 and (b) each subsequent year. (162368)

Mr. Thomas

Information on UK aid to Sierra Leone is available in the DFID publication ‘Statistics on International Development 2007’. This publication is available online at:

www.dfid.gov.uk.

Relevant figures are reproduced in the table as follows:

Table 1: UK Total gross public expenditure and financial aid 2002-03 to 2006-07, (£ thousand)

£000

Total bilateral gross public expenditure (GPEX) to Sierra Leone

Of which: Financial aid to Sierra Leone

2002-03

32,190

11,566

2003-04

34,280

13,419

2004-05

27,431

13,408

2005-06

34,208

16,741

2006-07

37,696

13,287

The non-financial aid element of GPEX is made up of technical assistance, humanitarian assistance, debt relief, other DFID bilateral aid and aid from other official UK sources. The imputed share of UK multilateral Official Development Assistance between 2001 and 2005 can be seen in the following table:

Table 2: Imputed UK Share of Multilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) 2001-05

Sierra Leone (£000)

2001

12,030

2002

4,294

2003

6,849

2004

9,120

2005

11,736