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Humanitarian/Reconstruction Assistance

Answer

The amounts and proportion of DFID spending allocated to humanitarian assistance in Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan are shown in the table.DFID does not centrally track specific expenditure on reconstruction assistance. It would incur a disproportionate cost for all country offices to undertake this analysis.

	Humanitarian assistance (£000)	Total bilateral DFID spend (£000)	Proportion of spend as humanitarian assistance (percentage)
(a) Africa
1997–98	24,195	345,013	7
1998–99	46,251	445,966	10
1999–2000	32,001	493,779	6
2000–01	65,010	641,951	10
2001–02	44,218	575,912	8
2002–03	155,096	736,425	21
2003–04	124,188	710,820	17
2004–05	172,659	867,477	20
(b) Sub-Saharan Africa
1997–98	23,952	332,793	7
1998–99	45,913	432,290	11
1999–2000	31,558	484,083	7
2000–01	59,208	626,024	9
2001–02	43,656	532,506	8
2002–03	154,352	699,759	22
2003–04	122,429	671,584	18
2004–05	170,727	825,228	21
(c) Afghanistan
1997–98	6,685	6,873	97
1998–99	2,579	3,873	67
1999–2000	4,917	5,262	93
2000–01	6,563	7,047	93
2001–02	49,943	49,996	100
2002–03	44,219	74,546	59
2003–04	10,385	79,683	13
2004–05	7,067	79,589	9
(d) Iraq
1997–98	3,351	3,351	100
1998–99	5,749	5,749	100
1999–2000	6,585	6,585	100
2000–01	9,545	9,545	100
2001–02	7,760	7,760	100
2002–03	18,853	18,853	100
2003–04	110,052	209,313	53
2004–05	21,383	49,107	44

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

440 c1286-7W;440 c1286-7W; 34843

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Developing countries Development aid Africa Humanitarian aid Iraq Afghanistan Reconstruction Sub-Saharan Africa

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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