Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when the UK aid budget will return 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income; and whether they consider the funding for Ukraine (1) to be part of the temporary 0.5 per cent target, or (2) to be additional expenditure.

The Government is committed to returning to spending 0.7% of GNI on official development assistance (ODA) when the fiscal situation allows.

The response to Ukraine is a priority for the FCDO and the international community. The UK has committed £394 million in aid to the current crisis in Ukraine the breakdown of which is in the Foreign Secretary's letter to the IDC [https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/9404/documents/161135/default]. This will come from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget. The Department is currently finalising allocations based on the Spending Review outcome and these will be published in due course.