Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on (a) Somalia and (b) Ethiopia of changes to UK aid allocations between 2019-20 and 2021-22.

Throughout changes to UK aid allocations in these years, the UK has and will continue to be a champion for international development and one of the most generous global aid donors, spending more than £11 billion in 2021.

This applies in Somalia where we are a leading donor. Over 2018-22 our flagship humanitarian and resilience programme reached almost 9.5 million Somalis, including more than 2.5 million with emergency food assistance and over 3.8 million with agricultural development activities.

It also applies in Ethiopia, where last financial year alone UK funding treated more than 330,000 malnourished children, gave almost 500,000 people access to safe water, reached more than 1.7 million people with emergency medical supplies, and provided more than 1.4 million with cash assistance to buy food and other essentials.

We remain committed to protecting the most vulnerable and to spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on Official Development Assistance as soon as the fiscal situation allows.