Overseas Aid: Legal Opinion

(asked on 2nd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to his oral contribution in the debate on Official Development Assistance on 26 November 2020, Official Report, col 1018, if he will publish the legal advice he has received on the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 8th February 2021

The Foreign Secretary set out his position to Parliament on Official Development Assistance and the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 on 26 November 2020. In accordance with the usual principles governing legal professional privilege, the Government does not intend to publish any legal advice it has received on this issue.

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