Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 48244

Development Aid

Tabled: 25 April 2025
Answered: 2 May 2025

Question

Alice Macdonald

Labour (Co-op)Norwich North

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has learned lessons from the implementation of Official Development Assistance reductions in 2020-21.

Answer

Stephen Doughty
The Government has learned lessons from previous rounds of reductions to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.We recognise that the reduction demands significant shifts in the scale and shape of our ODA spending, which is why we are taking the...

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