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Overseas Aid: Natural Resources

Volume 482: debated on Wednesday 12 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department has spent on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in each year since 2002. (233819)

The Department for International Development (DFID) has provided to date a total of £8.45 million over the last six years to support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) globally.

The yearly break down of expenditure is as follows:

£

2002

37,896

2003

129,695

2004

3,077,358

2005

1,122,370

2006

1,999,860

2007

1,502,163

2008

582,522