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Written question asked by Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour) on Monday, 13 March 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 15 March 2023. It was answered by Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) on Thursday, 23 March 2023 on behalf of the Department for Business and Trade.


Department for Business and Trade: Technical Assistance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what was the cost to the public purse of (a) Official and (b) non-Official Development Assistance spending on technical assistance programming delivered by UK-based organisations in 2021.

Answer

In 2021, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spent £32,039,053 in Official Development Assistance (ODA) on technical assistance delivered by UK-based organisations. This spend was through our International Climate Finance programming, from a UK wide ODA spend of £11.4bn that year. BEIS’s technical assistance aims to support developing countries to raise their climate ambition to help limit global temperature rises to less than 1.5 degrees, in order to reduce the devasting impact of climate change on the world’s poorest communities.

For non-Official Development Assistance spend, this information is not held centrally and it would not be proportionate to obtain this information.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
163879
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Technical assistance Department for Business and Trade
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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