Bangladesh: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid has been provided by the Government to Bangladesh in each of the last five years; and how much is planned to be provided in 2009-10. (259932)

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
	Total DFID Bilateral Programme	DFID Imputed Multilateral Shares
2003-04	55,383	28,162
2004-05	127,904	22,538
2005-06	123,368	40,093
2006-07	109,313	45,435
2007-08	129,392	41,923

DFID’s future spending allocations were laid out in DFID’s annual report 2008, published in May 2008. A copy of this publication is available online at

www.dfid.gov.uk

and is also available in the Library. DFID has allocated £125 million for the Bangladesh programme in 2009-10.

Volume 488: debated on Friday 6 March 2009