Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding that is currently allocated to the EU's development assistance budget her Department plans to re-allocate to Commonwealth countries after the UK leaves the EU.

There will be no decisions on the future distribution of UK aid until the Government’s negotiations on exiting the EU have concluded. However, leaving the EU means that in future we will take our own decisions about how to deliver the policy objectives previously targeted by EU funding. While the UK remains a member of the EU, we will honour commitments made to the EU budget during the period of our membership. We will pay our full share of all EU development programmes approved by December 2020, and contribute to the 11th European Development Fund until its closure.