Development Aid
Commons · Question 57641 · Tabled 5 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Rachael Maskell
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions in aid spending on the global influence of (a) China and (b) other countries.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Doughty, 23 Jun 2025
To fund a necessary increase in defence spending, the Government has taken the decision in the current fiscal and economic circumstances to reduce our Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.This was not an ideological decision, but a hardheaded one,...