Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of refugee hosting costs on his Department's aid budget.

In 2022, £3,690 million of Official Developmental Assistance (ODA) was in the form of in-donor refugee costs (28.8 per cent of the UK's total £12.8 billion ODA in 2022). To help meet some of the unanticipated refugee costs, the UK is providing an extra £2.5 billion of ODA over 2022 and 2023.

The FCDO has worked hard to minimise the impact of reductions to its ODA budget by reprioritising spend in line with the priorities set out in the International Development Strategy. The FCDO's ODA programme spend for 2022-23 and planned ODA allocations until 2024-25 are set out in Annex A of the FCDO's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23.