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Written question asked by Baroness Greengross (Crossbench) on Monday, 5 July 2021, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 July 2021. It was answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative) on Monday, 19 July 2021 on behalf of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

China: Development Aid

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government what aid and development programmes they have funded in China since 2016.

Answer

Details of UK bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China between 2009 to 2019 can be found in table A4b of the Statistics on International Development (SID), published on the gov.uk website at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920048/Table-A4b.ods. Please note in line with SID revision policy there has been a minor revision to the 2019 SID dataset. A data processing error in reporting meant that the published 2019 figure of UK ODA spend in China was £500,000 lower than the actual spend [as the Grant in Aid ODA for the Great Britain-China Centre (GBCC) was mistakenly attributed to 'developing countries unspecified']

Further details on the programmes that underpin the figures in table A4b, including project titles and descriptions, can be found in the ODA activity level datasets published on gov.uk: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/921034/Data_Underlying_SID_2019.ods (for 2017-2019) and https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/695435/data-underlying-the-sid2017-revision-March.ods (for 2009 - 2016).

Her Majesty's Government's final 2020 ODA spend, including country data, will be published in the 'Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend' in autumn 2021.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL1690
Session
2021-22
Subjects
Development aid China
Link
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