Lord Renwick of Clifton: DFID: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Overseas Aid: Job Creation

Wednesday 16th December 2015

Asked by: Lord Renwick of Clifton (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the UK overseas aid budget is devoted to job creation.

Answered by Baroness Verma

DFID has committed to increase spending on economic development to £1.8 billion by 2015/16. This will help to create more and better jobs, including for women and youth, supporting countries to lift themselves out of poverty and aid dependency.