Overseas Aid
(asked on 15th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of the extent to which recent changes to the OECD's Official Development Assistance (ODA) definition will divert ODA away from welfare programmes into military programmes.
This question was answered on 22nd March 2016
The recent DAC High Level Meeting was able to agree the first update in the ODA rules in over 40 years and reflect the changing nature of aid delivery. All of this is in line with the primary purpose of ODA - to support the economic development and welfare of development countries – and this has not changed.