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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 and (b) disbursed for (i) agriculture and (ii) food security through (A) bilateral expenditure, (B) multilateral contributions and (C) research in each of the last five years; and how much it intends to disburse in each such case in each of the next three years.
Answer

Details of funds disbursed by the Department for International Development (DFID) for agriculture and food security in each of the last five financial years are provided in the following table. DFID does not record funds allocated but not disbursed. These figures do not include spending on emergency humanitarian food aid.

2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Bilateral
Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) 72 55 74 52 64
Agriculture and RNR Research 36 33 26 27 33
Food Aid and Food Security 16 18 19 36 51
Rural Development 9 26 25 49 56
Rural Roads — — — — 10
Total Bilateral 133 132 145 164 214
Multilateral
Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) 42 38 109 95 124
Agriculture (incl. Fisheries) Research 5 4 2 4 1
Food Security 26 31 27 19 14
Rural Development 25 20 29 19 22
Total Multilateral 98 93 166 138 161
Total DFID Expenditure Ag and FS 231 225 312 301 375
Basic Nutrition 1 1 2 9 13
Total DFID Expenditure Ag and FS (inc. Nutrition) 232 226 314 311 388

The UK Government have committed to spend £1.1 billion on agriculture and food security between 2009-10 and 2011-12. This commitment does not include spending on basic nutrition or emergency humanitarian food aid.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
506 c1200-1W; 319484
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Development aid
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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