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Somalia: Overseas Aid

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 23 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much bilateral aid his Department provided to Somalia in the latest year for which information is available; and in what form that aid was provided. (317523)

Details of the Department for International Development's (DFID's) expenditure in developing countries are published in ‘Statistics on International Development’, which is available in the House Library and online at

www.dfid.gov.uk

DFID's bilateral assistance to Somalia in 2008-09 was £33.48 million. This assistance is broken down by aid type in the following table.

Type of aid

£000

Humanitarian assistance

18 288

Bilateral aid delivered through a multilateral organisation

9 376

Bilateral aid delivered through an NGO

5 579

Technical co-operation

227

Non-budget support financial aid

9