How much UK aid was sent to China over the last 5 years

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Danielle Bartlett

Dear Department for International Development,

Grateful if you could please tell how much money the UK government has contributed in aid to China over the past 5 years from 2015 to date.

Yours faithfully,

Danielle Bartlett

Department for International Development

Dear Ms Bartlett

Thank you for your request for information which we received on 14 April.
We are dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and will respond to you directly as soon as possible and within 20
working days.

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Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number
F2020-114.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team
Department for International Development

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Danielle Bartlett
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6 May 2020

Dear Ms Bartlett
Freedom of Information Request F2020-114
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 14 April in which you asked for the following information:
Grateful if you could please tell how much money the UK government has contributed in aid to China over the past 5 years from 2015 to date.
The Department for International Development (DFID) holds information relevant to your request. However, some of this information is exempt from disclosure under section 21 (1) (Information accessible to the applicant by other means) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
DFID records and publishes information on aid spending by the UK Government on an annual basis in our report called 'Statistics on International Development' (SID).

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati...

This is the main, most comprehensive official report on UK aid spending and includes spending by all UK government departments. The UK Aid provided to China from 2015 to 2018 can be found in the following table:
Table A4b. Total UK Bilateral ODA by Country - Asia
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...

Similar information relating to 2019 will be published later this year. As this information is intended for future publication, it is exempt from disclosure under Section 22 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I have set out our analysis of the public interest factors relating to this qualified exemption below.
Section 22 (1) (Information intended for future publication)
Section 22 (1) (a) (b) and (c) provides that information is exempt information if it is held by a public authority with a view to publication, by the authority or any other person, at some future date. In applying this exemption, we have had to balance the public interest in disclosing the information against the public interest in withholding it.
Factors in favour of disclosure include the general public interest in transparency and openness around the amount and use of public money spent by the UK government on international development. There is a strong public interest in ensuring that this information is available for public scrutiny.
Factors against disclosure include the strong public interest in making the best use of public resources by pulling the information together; ensuring that it is accurate and publishing it in a consistent and comprehensive format as planned. The information we intend to publish in future editions of ‘Statistics for International Development’ has not yet been finalised. As we have a well-established annual reporting process already in place, we have concluded that the public interest in withholding this information outweighs the public interest in disclosing it at this point in time.
Please contact me, quoting reference number F2020-114, if you have any questions about this letter.
If you are unhappy with the service we have provided and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to the Information Rights Team at foi@dfid.gov.uk within 40 working days of the date of this letter.
If you do make a complaint and are not content with the outcome, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted DFID’s complaints procedure. You can contact the Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ .
Yours sincerely
Holly Louden
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development
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