Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made a recent assessment of the UK's position on a list of countries for international development spending as a proportion of GDP.

Using the latest official figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (for 2019), the UK will be the second most generous Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending country in the G7 as a percentage of our national income in 2021 based on a 0.5 per cent commitment. We will spend more of our national income in percentage terms than the US, Japan, Canada or Italy.

The full list of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and their ODA spending as a proportion of Gross National Income in 2019 can be found in our Statistics on International Development publication in Table C4: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920071/Table-C4.ods