Department for Work and Pensions: Overseas Aid
(asked on 16th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is signing new funding agreements for projects from the Official Development Assistance budget.
This question was answered on 24th June 2020
The UK has a legal commitment to spend 0.7% of its gross national income (GNI) each year on Official Development Assistance (ODA). HM Treasury allocates ODA budgets to departments and is responsible for decisions on changes to these.