Military Intervention
(asked on 3rd October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to classify the cost of armed intervention to achieve regime change as overseas aid.
This question was answered on 17th October 2016
No - the use of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for general military activities is circumscribed; ODA can only be used in well-defined training on a limited list of topics consistent with development objectives, for example in human rights and humanitarian law.