Written Question·Treasury·UIN 22370

Development Aid

Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 13 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Nadia Whittome

LabourNottingham East

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the overseas development assistance budget to 0.7% of gross national income without applying a fiscal test.

Answer

Darren Jones
The Government remains committed to international development. This is why we allocated £13.3 billion to ODA in 2024/25 and £13.7 billion in 2025/26 at Autumn Budget 2024. We will restore Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending to the level of 0.7 ...

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