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Humanitarian Aid

Volume 480: debated on Thursday 16 October 2008

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Keith Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on humanitarian aid in each of the last five years. (227492)

Mr. Michael Foster

The proportion of Department for International Development (DFID) programme expenditure spent on humanitarian aid in each of the last five years is shown in the following table and split by bilateral and imputed multilateral expenditure:

Table 1: Proportion of DFID programme expenditure spent on humanitarian aid since2003-04

Percentage

Proportion of DFID bilateral programme expenditure spent on humanitarian aid

Proportion of DFID imputed multilateral expenditure spent on humanitarian aid

2003-04

11.46

8.51

2004-05

11.15

6.63

2005-06

13.91

12.27

2006-07

11.01

5.25

2007-08

10.63

n/a

Imputed multilateral expenditure is assessed from the figures reported by the multilateral organisations to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), 2007-08 will not therefore be available until 2009.