Overseas Aid: Job Creation

(asked on 3rd December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the UK overseas aid budget is devoted to job creation.


Answered by
Baroness Verma Portrait
Baroness Verma
This question was answered on 16th December 2015

DFID has committed to increase spending on economic development to £1.8 billion by 2015/16. This will help to create more and better jobs, including for women and youth, supporting countries to lift themselves out of poverty and aid dependency.


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