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Overseas Aid

Volume 491: debated on Monday 27 April 2009

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Gregory Barker

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much in contributions the UK paid to the (a) World Bank Group, (b) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and (c) European Investment Bank in each of the last five years. (265224)

Mr. Thomas

I have been asked to reply.

The following table sets out the core contributions paid into the (a) World Bank Group, (b) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in each of the last five years. DFID does not make core contributions to the European Investment Bank.

£000

World Bank Group1

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development1

2003-04

150,000

16,519

2004-05

150,000

18,935

2005-06

364,909

19,260

2006-07

493,333

210,532

2007-08

493,387

29,586

1 Includes technical co-operation.

2 From 2006-07, contributions to the EBRD have been recorded as bilateral expenditure, following new OECD Development Assistance Committee classifications.

Multilateral expenditure includes core contributions to multilateral organisations and aid supporting internal capacity building and administration costs. It does not include aid where the sector, theme, recipient country/region or specific project the aid will be used to support is known.