Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he received legal advice in respect of lowering the target for ODA from 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent prior to 26 November 2020.

The Foreign Secretary took a range of advice before the decision was taken in respect of the reduction in ODA from 0.7% to 0.5% of GNI.