Development Aid: EU Action

(asked on 30th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) assessment he has made of and (b) representations he has received on the potential merits of an off-budget joint EU/UK contractual facility established via the EU’s external assigned revenue procedure (under Article 21 of the Financial Regulation) to enable the allocation of official development assistance to common strategic priorities; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 3rd December 2020

Beyond our commitments under the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK has no plans to contribute financially to EU international development programmes under the next EU budget (2021-27) via external assigned revenue or any other procedure. Now that the UK has left the EU, and as we meet our commitments under the Withdrawal Agreement, we will take decisions on where to direct UK ODA based on the conclusions of the upcoming Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.

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