Bangladesh: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding his Department has allocated to development projects in Bangladesh in each of the last five years. (248934)

Details on DFID's bilateral expenditure and imputed share of multilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) are contained in the DFID publication ‘Statistics on International Development’. This publication is available from in the Library and online at:

www.dfid.gov.uk.

Relevant figures are produced in the following table.

*DFID expenditure in Bangladesh, 2003-04 to 2007-08*
£000
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Total DFID bilateral programme	55,383	127,904	123,368	109,313	129,392
DFID imputed multilateral shares	26,967	19,951	37,860	42,029	—
Note: Imputed multilateral figures for 2007-08 are not yet available.

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 22 January 2009