How does the UK government spend its aid budget?

This is handled by DFID (the Department for International Development), a branch of the government with its own Secretary of State (currently Douglas Alexander MP). In 2007/8, 57% of DFID’s programme was spent on bilateral aid, both development and humanitarian—the largest recipients of bilateral development assistance were India, Ethiopia and Tanzania, whereas the largest humanitarian aid channels were to the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq (see Darfur, Congo and Iraq); roughly 10% of bilateral assistance went to UK Civil Society Organisations such as the British Red Cross, VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas) and Oxfam; 38% of DFID’s programme went on multilateral aid, chiefly to the European Commission’s Development Fund, followed by the World Bank and the United Nations.

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