Written Question·Treasury·UIN 78427

Development Aid

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Wera Hobhouse

Liberal DemocratBath

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to take steps to enable an increase in the Official Development Assistance budget.

Answer

James Murray
To enable the government to invest more on security and defence, while remaining committed to our fiscal rules, the Prime Minister has taken the difficult decision to reduce Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the equivalent of 0.3% of GNI by 2027. T...

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