Thursday, 12 July 2007 International Development Somalia : Overseas Aid Jim Cunningham (PPS (Mr Mike O'Brien, Minister of State), Department for Work and Pensions, Coventry South, Labour) | Hansard source To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of UK aid to Somalia is (a) agricultural and (b) medical in nature.

Gareth Thomas (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for International Development) | Hansard source

Provisional total UK bilateral expenditure to Somalia in 2006-07 was £16.6 million. Of this total £0.8 million (4.6 per cent.) went to the health sector. The UK is scaling up its support to the health sector in 2007-08 and has recently committed £2.3 million over two years to increase the number and quality of health workers in Somaliland. There was no direct support to the agricultural sector. Nearly half of the UK's aid budget in 2006-07 went on humanitarian activities (£7.6 million, 45.8 per cent.), a proportion of which may be used for health or agriculture related activities.

The UK also contributes to a range of multilateral organisations that operate in Somalia; these contributions cannot be broken down to sectors.

Source: Hansard