Overseas Aid

(asked on 17th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to introduce new criteria for allocating her Department's overseas aid budget.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 24th January 2018

The UK Aid Strategy sets out that, “in allocating aid, the government will carefully consider the fit with its strategic objectives, the level of need, the ability of partner countries to finance their own development, and what support they get from others”.

Where DFID works and DFID’s allocations to different countries are kept under review to ensure UK Aid is used most effectively to achieve poverty reduction in the national interest and responds to changing global needs.

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