Speeches

Meg Munn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Meg Munn on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 5 March 2014, Official Report, column 871, on Pacific Islands, how much support, and under what categories her Department gave indirectly to Pacific Island countries in 2013-14.

Mr Alan Duncan

DFID may give aid indirectly to countries in the Pacific region if multilateral organisations in receipt of DFID core contributions give aid to countries there. It is not possible to directly track this funding to individual countries. To provide an indication of the destination of aid, the overall proportions of aid reported by the relevant multilateral agencies are used to impute a DFID contribution. The DFID imputed multilateral shares for the Pacific region in 2011/12 are set out in the table below. Figures for 2013/14 will not be available until autumn 2015.

Pacific Island Countries

£ (thousand)

Cook Islands

88

Fiji

0

Kiribati

3,537

Marshall Islands

4

Micronesia, Fed. States

10

Nauru

69

Niue

0

Palau

1

Papua New Guinea

0

Pitcairn Islands

0

Samoa

1,444

Solomon Islands

570

Tokelau

2

Tonga

4,393

Tuvalu

1,399

Vanuatu

264

Wallis & Fortuna

0

South Pacific Regional

0

Oceania, regional

275

Total Pacific

12,055