Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Government plans to maintain its contributions to developing countries through the European Development Fund after the UK leaves the EU.

While the UK remains a member of the EU, our commitments to the European Development Fund continue unchanged. There will be no decisions on the future distribution of UK aid until the Government’s negotiations on exiting the EU have concluded.

On 12 September the Government published a Future Partnership Paper setting out how we might work with the EU on security, foreign policy and development after we have left the EU. We look forward to discussing our future partnership when the European Council is ready.