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Written Question
Defence: Finance
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been transferred from the aid budget to the defence budget.

Answered by Darren Jones - Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

In February this year, the Prime Minister announced that NATO qualifying defence spending will increase to 2.5% GDP by 2027-28. It will be fully funded by reducing Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 0.5% to 0.3% GNI by the same year. Further details of cash terms savings from reducing ODA can be found in the Spring Statement 2025 document here:

CP1298 – Spring Statement 2025

Individual departmental budgets will be confirmed at the conclusion of the spending review on 11 June.

Written Question
Defence: Finance
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been transferred from the international aid to the defence budget in cash terms.

Answered by Darren Jones - Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

In February this year, the Prime Minister announced that NATO qualifying defence spending will increase to 2.5% GDP by 2027-28. It will be fully funded by reducing Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 0.5% to 0.3% GNI by the same year. Further details of cash terms savings from reducing ODA can be found in the Spring Statement 2025 document here:

CP1298 – Spring Statement 2025

Individual departmental budgets will be confirmed at the conclusion of the spending review on 11 June.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Apr 2021
Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

"The Minister has accused people of criticising the report in bad faith. Is she really saying that Professor Michael Marmot, a world-renowned expert in public health, is acting out of bad faith? Is she really saying that the British Medical Association and other professional associations are speaking in bad faith? …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Mar 2021
Covid-19: Ethnic Minority Disparities

"The Minister is insistent that the wildly disproportionate rate of infection and death among black, Asian and minority ethnic communities has nothing to do with the fact that they are black, Asian or from a minority ethnic group. Has it occurred to her that the fact that they are more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Mar 2020
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package

"Does my right hon. Friend share my concern for that particular group of victims who are people with no recourse to public funds? They cannot work in a situation where so much of the economy has been closed down, and they have no legal rights to benefits of any kind—even …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Windrush: 70th Anniversary

"I am proud to stand at this Dispatch Box and bear witness to the Windrush generation. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) on her excellent speech, and my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) and my hon. Friend the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Windrush: 70th Anniversary

"At one and the same time, the Windrush generation were both anti-colonialist but deeply respectful of a range of British institutions, including royalty. It may surprise some Government Members, but if someone meets a West Indian who was educated in the West Indies between the war and asks them to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Windrush: 70th Anniversary

"The Windrush generation were both anti-colonialist and devoted to the royal family. As the years turned into decades of their settlement in the UK, their relatives all over the Caribbean had treasured photographs, in pride of place on their mantelpiece, of that generation together with their children in their Sunday …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Windrush: 70th Anniversary

"That is an excellent point, and many of the Windrush generation people I have met or tried to help have been completely frustrated by the fact that they had a whole ream of paper showing that they had been paying tax for all these years, but still the Home Office …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jun 2018
Windrush: 70th Anniversary

"I understand about the arrangements for compensation, but what about a hardship fund now—an interim hardship fund?..."
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