Pakistan: Overseas Aid

Mr. MacShane

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on aid to (a) Pakistan and (b) India in each year since 2000. (203770)

Details of the Department for International Development's (DFID) bilateral assistance and imputed multilateral assistance to India and Pakistan since 2000 are laid out in the following tables:

*Table 1: Total DFID Bilateral Expenditure*, *2000-01 to 2006-07*
£000
	India	Pakistan
2000-01	114,814	14,587
2001-02	179,021	43,198
2002-03	154,742	38,314
2003-04	196,897	66,240
2004-05	257,649	31,377
2005-06	252,759	97,413
2006-07	233,857	101,118

*Table 2: Imputed DFID Share of Multilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA), 2000-01 to 2006-07*
£000
	India	Pakistan
2000-01	71,671	3,026
2001-02	21,590	24,971
2002-03	57,736	39,233
2003-04	16,199	14,208
2004-05	21,011	13,742
2005-06	36,913	55,951
2006-07	80,842	20,803

Volume 475: debated on Tuesday 13 May 2008