Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 16 June 2020 on Global Britain, if the Department for International Development budget will be ring-fenced for use within the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

The budget of the new department will combine the FCO and DFID budgets. The government remains committed to the target of spending 0.7 percent of our national income on aid, which is enshrined in law. As the Prime Minister has said and as reflected in the name of the new department, the development work of DFID will remain central to the new department’s mission.