Overseas Aid

(asked on 9th November 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many projects funded by her Department have had a reduction in their activities as a result of changes in the value of the pound since June 2016.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 15th November 2018

DFID’s policy is to sign agreements and make payments in sterling to mitigate foreign exchange risk. Activities within programmes will have increased and decreased since 2016 for a variety of reasons. It is not possible to identify which might be the result of foreign exchange movements.

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