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Written question asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) on Thursday, 8 March 2018, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 22 March 2018. It was answered by Lord Bates (Conservative) on Thursday, 22 March 2018 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Overseas Aid

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government what amount of UK Overseas Development Aid was spent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in each of the last ten years.

Answer

The UK Government has provided £1.45 billion of bilateral Overseas Development Assistance to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2007. This is not delivered through the government of the DRC and is based on humanitarian need and ongoing development projects.

The table below shows this broken down by year:

Year

£m

2007

60,309

2008

106,588

2009

144,385

2010

162,379

2011

238,346

2012

138,944

2013

161,640

2014

166,594

2015

142,721

2016

129,546

Total

1,452,052

Source: Statistics on International Development 2017 (see below)

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/659845/Table4Aa.ods

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL6188
Session
2017-19
Attachment
Table showing UK Bilateral ODA by country - Africa
Subjects
Development aid Democratic Republic of the Congo
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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