Written question asked by Preet Kaur Gill (Labour) on Wednesday, 2 September 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 September 2020. It was answered by Nigel Adams (Conservative) on Tuesday, 22 September 2020 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 September 2020 to Question 76829, how much of the £774 million has been disbursed to multilateral institutions to date.

Answer

The Â£774 million so far committed to combat Covid-19 and to reinforce the global effort to find a vaccine includes funding to multilaterals. Below is a table of the breakdown of this funding, with funding to multilaterals in bold. Of this total, all funding to multilaterals - UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and the WHO - totalling Â£145 million, has been disbursed.

Institutions	Amount (Â£ million)
AU African Union Covid19 Response Fund	20
DEC	10
Expertise & misc. support	6
Red Cross (IFRC /ICRC/Nat Soc)	55
NGO support	20
UNFPA	10
UNHCR	20
UNICEF	20
UNICEF (Education Cannot Wait)	5
UNILEVER coalition	50
WFP	15
WHO	75
FIND	23
Wellcome/Gates Foundation/ Mastercard Therapeutics Accelerator	40
CEPI	250
Joint Initiative for Epidemic Preparedness / Wellcome Trust	5
IMF Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust	150
GRAND TOTAL	774

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Type: Written question
Reference: 84322
Session: 2019-21
Related items: Developing Countries: Coronavirus
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Developing countries International assistance Disease control Coronavirus
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Developing Countries: Coronavirus

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