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Overseas Aid: Education

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 16 September 2009

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Andrew Stunell

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much and what percentage of its budget his Department spent on overseas education projects in each year since 1997. (291312)

Mr. Michael Foster

Details of the Department for International Development’s (DFID) expenditure in the education sector is published annually in “Statistics on International Development”, which is available online at:

www.dfid.gov.uk

The relevant figures are reproduced as follows:

DFID bilateral expenditure and imputed multilateral expenditure on the education sector and as a proportion of totals, 1997-98 to 2008-09 (£000)

DFID bilateral expenditure

Percentage of total DFID bilateral expenditure

DFID imputed multilateral share

Percentage of total imputed multilateral share

1997-98

139,550

13

51,151

9

1998-99

144,592

12

69,152

7

1999-2000

121,975

9

31,406

4

2000-01

162,678

10

64,831

6

2001-02

128,485

10

39,346

4

2002-03

179,963

10

55,594

5

2003-04

222,281

11

72,078

6

2004-05

286,269

13

67,329

5

2005-06

314,491

12

65,724

5

2006-07

372,775

13

104,194

6

2007-08

350,603

12

117,441

6

2008-09

450,973

14

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Details are not yet available for DFID imputed multilateral share 2008-09.