Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £18.25 million that HMRC will invest in Overseas Development Assistance funding over the next six years will come from its existing budget or new funding allocated to that department.

The six year period covers the current 2015 Spending Review and the 2019 Spending Review announced at the Spring Statement. For the time period covered by the current Spending Review the Official Development Assistance funding is from within the existing departmental budget and budget transferred from other government departments. For the time period covered by the 2019 Spending Review, from 20/21 onwards, departmental budgets have yet to be set by HM Treasury. These will be finalised as part of the upcoming Spending Review, this includes the funding that HMRC will be allocated for Official Development Assistance.