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Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 2025

Debate

UK Resettlement Scheme 2025

Contribution

My Lords, as the Minister knows from my question yesterday, the Home Office scores all in-country migration costs as official development assistance. At the end of this Parliament, that level will be halved by this Labour Government, which have also chosen to make a policy decision to continue to score in-country migration costs as 100% aid, but they are not proposing to reduce that level in relation to the overall pot of aid. Why?

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