Overseas Aid

(asked on 18th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, further to written answers 5457 and 103608 in which the Minister stated in January that the allocated budget for the Integrated Activity Fund (IAF)/ Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF) for the financial year 2020-2021 was £20m, but in October stated that this number had been reduced to £8.4m, to account for the reduction in funding allocated to the fund.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

Foreign and Commonwealth Office programming, including the International Programme (IP), was temporarily put on hold earlier this year owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, except where the programmes were directly responding to Covid-19 or National Security priorities. Following a Ministerial-led reprioritisation exercise in the summer of 2020, a revised allocation for the IP, which includes £8.4 million for the Gulf Strategy Fund was approved in September to be spent in the remainder of the financial year.

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