Overseas Aid: Voluntary Organisations
(asked on 23rd February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to deliver the next phase of the Volunteering for Development programme.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 9th March 2021
The impact of the global pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take the tough but necessary decision to temporarily reduce our aid budget. We are now working through the implications of these changes for individual programmes, including for the Volunteering for Development grant. No decisions have yet been made.