Policy paper

Annex: Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocation by department

Updated 31 January 2019

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Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocation by department

ODA allocation by department (£m) 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20
DFID 10,102 10,589 10,802 10,371
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 721 845 946 1,038
CSSF (excl. non ODA) 484 549 624 625
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 466 524 611 625
Home Office 385 377 407 409
Department of Health and Social Care 99 168 234 289
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs 75 78 80 81
Prosperity Fund (excl. non ODA) 55 73 120 290
Other 173 182 203 183

Table notes

  1. The table shows total planned ODA allocations to departments and cross-government funds. These ODA allocations by department, together with additional spending that is not departmental, such as a proportion of the UK’s share of EU ODA, is sufficient to meet the government’s 0.7% commitment in each calendar year of the spending review. Departmental ODA outturn figures may differ from allocations due to transfers undertaken between departments and any financial year underspend.
  2. ODA allocations are adjusted as needed at fiscal events in line with OBR projections, to ensure that the government meets its commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI in every calendar year. This means that allocations following adjustments made at Budgets 2016, 2017 and 2018 will differ to original allocations at Spending Review 2015. Allocations for future years may change to meet revised GNI forecasts.
  3. DFID publishes final calendar year spend figures as national statistics each year in the publication ‘Statistics on International Development’. Statistics showing 2017 outturn were published on 29 November 2018.
  4. ODA in cross-government funds (CSSF and Prosperity Fund) is spent by a number of government departments, including DFID.
  5. The CSSF also has a non-ODA element that is not included in the table, the planned funding for which is £m 640/650/660/670 between 2016-17 and 2019-20.
  6. The Prosperity Fund also has a non-ODA element that is not included in the table, the planned funding for which is £m 5/8/10/10 between 2016-17 and 2019-20.
  7. ‘Other departments’ includes DCMS, ONS, HMRC, MOD, DfE, DWP, DfT, CO and HMT.
  8. The 2015 Spending Review set budgets to 2019-20. In addition, some commitments were made to 2020-21, for example the total UK Climate Finance commitment is at least £5.8 billion from 2016-17 to 2020-21.
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