Written questions

Development Aid

Commons · Question 47682 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to reallocate reductions in in-donor refugee costs to other official development assistance programmes from the 2025-26 financial year.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 8 May 2025

The UK Government has taken measures to reduce the asylum backlog and reform the asylum accommodation system to help end the use of expensive accommodation in the next Spending Review period to ensure more of our Official Development Assistance (ODA) budg...