Written questions

Development Aid

Commons · Question 48103 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of using forecasts of Gross National Income to determine future levels of official development assistance on actual futu

Answer

Answered by Stephen Doughty, 30 Apr 2025

Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets from 2025/26 onwards are set in cash terms based on Gross National Income (GNI) forecasts. This change means that the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's ODA budgets will no longer be exposed to t...