Overseas Development Assistance: Budgets and Awards Debate
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(3 years, 6 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, we will be announcing the particular detail that the noble Lord has requested in the very near future.
My Lords, like so many others I was taken aback to learn that the cuts were to be across the board and would include very recently established programmes. A careful assessment of priority programmes is of course time consuming, but does this mean that cutting assistance for starving and wounded Yemeni children is to be equated with, let us say, cuts to training videos? Do the cuts have to be so unthinking?
I assure the noble Baroness that a lot of thought has gone into the reductions we have had to make.