Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish the (a) criteria and (b) process used by his Department for making decisions on bilateral country aid allocations.

Ministers make decisions on bilateral country aid allocations informed by a range of modelling and information sources, including humanitarian need, geopolitical prioritisation, and the ability for a country to make effective use of aid and self-finance its own poverty reduction, in line with the International Development Strategy (IDS) commitment to "channel the majority of our Official Development Assistance (ODA) towards low-income countries".

To manage reductions in ODA allocations, Ministers provided steers to the organisation, guided by the priorities set out in the IDS, while ensuring we meet our financial commitments to multilateral organisations. Ministers reviewed proposed allocations against both development impacts and equalities impact assessments and made adjustments accordingly.

We plan to publish our ODA allocations by country in the FCDO Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 this year.