1. This release reports on the deployment of official financial resources by the United Kingdom to support international development, and shows how this funding is broken down by destination country or organisation, type of assistance and purpose.
2. This report provides information on the UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) which includes both the Department for International Development (DFID) programme and the element of official UK aid that is delivered through other UK Government Departments. This report also provides information on the level of Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the UK.
3. The UK GPEX data presented in this report are produced on a mainly cash basis and are broadly consistent with the standards followed in the reporting of ODA.
4. This publication also covers detailed information on the DFID programme. The DFID programme includes bilateral and multilateral expenditure from DFID funds voted by Parliament including activities funded from the Conflict Prevention Pool. Beyond DFID voted funds, the DFID programme also includes an attribution of EC budgetary spending (the UK is attributed a share of the EC’s External Assistance Budget based on total UK contributions to the EC. Each budget line is then attributed to either DFID or other UK government departments. Prior to 2007/08 aid to Romania and Bulgaria who joined the EC in 2007 were attributed to DFID; since 2007/08 these sums have become part of the UK’s total contribution and cannot be attributed directly to DFID). This report also excludes some DFID voted funds which are not counted as aid.
5. The UK is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) which is a forum for consultation among 22 donor countries and the European Commission. The DAC sets the definitions and classifications for reporting on aid financing internationally, including ODA, and produces a statistical report on international aid flows annually. As a DAC member, the UK is committed to transparent reporting of development assistance in a way that permits international comparisons. 6. As well as ODA, the DAC also requires international reporting of ‘Other Official Flows’ (OOF). These are official flows to developing countries that do not meet the ODA criteria. More information on OOF is provided in the Glossary.
7. In previous editions, colonial pension payments made to ex-members of the UK Overseas Civil Service who were employed directly by developing countries governments were classed as “DFID bilateral expenditure”. While administered by DFID these payments are not sourced from DFID’s core budget. These colonial pension payments have been reclassified from “DFID Bilateral Programme” to “Aid from other UK Official Sources”. This change means that the breakdown of DFID expenditure is now consistent with the classification of spending under Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) agreed with HM Treasury. This reclassification has been implemented for all tables within SID and has been applied retrospectively.
8. Since the last edition of Statistics on International Development (SID) the Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) has been notionally allocated to countries, whereas in previous editions it was reported as non-specific country. More information on this can be found in Section 2 paragraph 33.
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