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Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Estimated Spend for Financial Year 2023-24

My Noble friend, The Minister of State, Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, has today made the following statement:

I wish to update the House on the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF)’s estimated spend for Financial Year 2023/24.

The CSSF, now replaced by the Integrated Security Fund (ISF), was a cross-government fund which used Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA funding to enable the integrated delivery of National Security Council priorities. The most recent Annual Report, for Financial Year 2022/23, was published in January 2024. A copy of this document can be found on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-annual-report-2022-to-2023.

The CSSF is estimated to spend approximately £848.9m in the financial year 2023/24. £505.7m of this was ODA and £343.2m was non-ODA funding. Total CSSF spending in the financial year 2022/23 was £830.4m as set out in the Annual Report.

The CSSF transitioned to the Integrated Security Fund (ISF) on 1 April 2024. The ISF is designed to help address global challenges and build on the unique work the CSSF has done to tackle conflict, stability and security challenges overseas which threaten UK national security. Through integrating domestic and overseas national security programming, the ISF aims to have strategic impact, bring value for taxpayers’ money and demonstrate UK innovation. It will take an integrated, agile, catalytic, and high-risk approach to find solutions to the most complex national security challenges outlined in the Integrated Review Refresh 2023.

The ISF retains many features of the CSSF, including international programmes and projects notably in Ukraine and the Middle East. It also includes new areas of programming such as maritime security, economic sanctions, emerging and disruptive technology, notably AI, and incorporates existing economic deterrence and cyber programmes into a single fund. This recognises the transnational nature of some of the threats facing the UK and will enable a more coherent and joined up government response.