Overseas Aid
(asked on 29th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the cost in cash terms of the UK maintaining Official Development Assistance at 0.7 per cent of gross national income in financial year 2016-17.
This question was answered on 3rd March 2016
Based on the Office for Budgetary Responsibility’s (OBR) Autumn Statement GNI forecasts, the UK is projected to spend £13.6bn on Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2016 in order to meet the 0.7 per cent of gross national income commitment.