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DFID funding for PDR Korea

Freedom of Information Act 2000, request no. F2008/194

Date of release: 3 September 2008

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1. What amount of the UK’s Public Expenditure for Development has been granted to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the past 5 years?

This information is already publicly available in ‘Statistics on International Development’ (SID), an annual DFID report which shows how all official UK financial resources for international development are spent.

The figures for 2003-2004 to 2007-2008 for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are available on the following link:

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/exp-stats/table3.3.xlsexcel spreadsheet(66kb)

The total DFID bilateral aid programme is shown in lines 167-171, column J.  Column K shows the total UK contribution through multilateral organisations. Please note, however, that this is an estimated share of the UK contribution as we are unable to directly track our multilateral contributions at country level.  You can find more details about the calculation of multilateral contributions via the following link to SID:

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/exp-stats/section3.asp.

2. Of this amount how much is conferred to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

No assistance was given directly to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

3. What is the breakdown of the remaining amount granted to projects/ agencies in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?

DFID holds the following information on spending from our bilateral aid programme, all of which was humanitarian assistance.

Financial Year

Project /Agency

Amount

2003-04

Red Cross to reduce the impact of environmental disasters.

UNICEF for a primary health care, water and sanitation project

£200,000


£511,500

2004-05

Red Cross to reduce the impact of environmental disasters.

UNICEF for a primary health care, water and sanitation project

£200,000


£511,500

2005-06

-

 

2006-07

-

 

2007-08

UN Flash Appeal to help with relief following floods:

World Food Programme for the emergency provision of food

Save the Children UK to provide support for essential health care.

 


£500,000


£150,000

 

Total

£2,073,000

We are unable to provide a breakdown of multilateral spending.