Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's priorities are for international development in India.

The British Government stopped providing traditional development aid to India in 2015.

Most UK funding to India is now in the form of business investments which prioritise helping India to reduce carbon emissions, address climate change, and make progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These investments have the dual aims of supporting development and backing private enterprises with the potential to be commercially viable so that we get our money back and can then reinvest, in India or elsewhere.

Our approach is guided by the 2030 Roadmap for India-UK future relations, in which development is a key theme.