Written question asked by David Curry (Conservative) on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 26 February 2010. It was answered by Michael John Foster (Labour) on Wednesday, 3 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding his Department (a) allocated to each Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Creditor Reporting system code in each of its bilateral country programmes in each of the last five years and (b) intends to allocate to each such code for each such programme in each of the next three years.

Answer: The Creditor Reporting System (CRS) is overseen by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full details of the UK return for calendar years up to 2008 is available directly from the OECD website at"http://stats.oecd.org/qwids/"A breakdown of the allocations of the Department for International Development's (DFID's) aid for 2009 or for future years cannot be provided at this level of detail without incurring disproportionate cost. Information on 2009 flows is due to be provided to the DAC in July.

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