International Development Fund costs: FOI release

Information requested

• From start of 2008 to present, by year, total amount paid out by the Scottish Government’s International Development Fund;
• From start of 2008 to present, by year, total amount paid out by the Scottish Government for humanitarian ends in foreign countries, excluding the International Development Fund.

Response

Please find our response to your request attached at Annex A.

Please note that some of the information you requested has not been provided. This is because under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.

The information that this exemption is being applied to relates to spend from:

• the International Development Fund (IDF) and
• ‘humanitarian ends in foreign countries, excluding the IDF’,

in financial years 2017 to end of 2023. This information is already published in our series of Scottish Government Contribution to International Development Reports covering 2017-2023. These reports take a holistic look across Scottish Government development work and provide broken-down budget spend per year in relation to international development, humanitarian and climate justice initiatives. The most recent Contribution Report was published in June 2024. You can access the reports as follows -

• Contribution to international development report: 2017-2018: https://www.gov.scot/publications/contribution-international-development-report-2017- 18/pages/5/
• Contribution to international development report: 2018-2019: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-contribution-international-development- report-2018-19/pages/5/
• International Development 2019-2020: contribution report: https://www.gov.scot/publications/contribution-international-development-report-2019-2020/
• Contribution to international development: report 2021 to 2023: https://www.gov.scot/publications/contribution-international-development-report-20212023/

If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the websites listed, then please contact us again and we will send you paper copies of the reports.

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FOI 202400442951 - Information Released - Annex

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