Africa: Overseas Aid

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what conflict risk assessment he has undertaken in relation to proposed UK cuts to aid in (a) Nigeria, (b) South Sudan, (c) Somalia and (d) the Sahel region.


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James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 12th March 2021

As announced last year, the impact of the global pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take the tough but necessary decision to temporarily reduce how much we spend on Official Development Assistance (ODA).

The Foreign Secretary has set out seven core priorities for the UK's aid budget, including resolving conflict. We are now working through the implications of these changes for individual programmes. No decisions have yet been made on individual budget allocations.

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