Global Challenges Research Fund and Newton Fund
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditure has been provided to the (a) Newton Fund and (b) Global Challenges Research Fund (i) in total and (ii) in each year since their launch; when each fund will close; and how ODA funding previously allocated to each fund will be redirected once these funds close.
Answered by Feryal Clark
Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend, by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) on research and development (R&D) is as follows:
(£m) | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total |
GCRF | 391 | 379 | 220 | 139 | 84 | 1,430 |
Newton Fund | 119 | 99 | 72 | 24 | 15 | 450 |
Due to the Machinery of Government change, and reporting of previous years’ spend alongside spend now reported under the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, disaggregated data for solely DSIT’s share pre-2019 is not currently available.
Both GCRF and the Newton Fund will come to a natural close by 31st March 2025. The Government will allocate future ODA to Departments as part of its standard Spending Review process.
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