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Development Aid: Spaceflight

Commons · Question 5443 · Tabled 11 Sep 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 11 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Sir Ashley Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance was provided to countries that have a space agency with launch capabilities in the last financial year; and how much he plans to prov

Answer

Answered by Anneliese Dodds, 11 Oct 2024

The UK's Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending is reported on a calendar year basis. In 2023, the UK's country specific bilateral ODA spend on India was £25.5m (focused mainly on tackling the climate crisis), on China was £7.2m (focused mainly on...