International Assistance: Group of Eight Tony Baldry To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2007, Official Report, column 1251W, on international assistance: Group of Eight, if he will break down the figures on (a) total overseas development assistance and (b) debt relief as a proportion of gross national income by G8 member country. Mr. Douglas Alexander The following table gives a breakdown of total Official Development Assistance (ODA) and debt relief, as a proportion of total Gross National Income (GNI) in 2006 for each of the G7 countries using current prices (as opposed to 2004 prices in the previous answer). Russia is not a member of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, therefore any aid from Russia is not included in the official DAC statistics on ODA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |ODA US$ million current|ODA/GNI percentage|Debt relief US$ million current|Debt relief/GNI percentage| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Canada |3,713 |0.30 |245 |0.020 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |France |10,448 |0.47 |3,543 |0.159 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Germany |10,351 |0.36 |2,722 |0.095 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Italy |3,672 |0.20 |1,604 |0.087 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Japan |11,608 |0.25 |3,128 |0.067 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |United Kingdom |12,607 |0.52 |3,476 |0.143 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |United States |22,739 |0.17 |1,575 |0.012 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |G7 countries |75,138 |0.30 |16,293 |0.065 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007| | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------