Lord Lipsey: DFID: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Overseas Aid

Friday 18th September 2015

Asked by: Lord Lipsey (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether new spending on migrants will count towards the statutory target of spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on overseas aid.

Answered by Baroness Verma

In his statement to Parliament on 7 September the Prime Minister stated that, in full accordance with internationally agreed rules, the UK will ensure that the full cost of supporting thousands of Syrian refugees in the UK will be met through our aid spending for the first year.