Department for Education: Overseas Aid

(asked on 15th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department's share of the Official Development Assistance will be reduced in the event of a decrease in GNI.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th June 2020

The Department’s spending on official development assistance (ODA) primarily relates to the provision of education to child and unaccompanied child asylum seekers in the 12 months after they make an asylum claim in the UK. The ODA contribution is an estimate of how much of the wider core schools funding for England is allocated due to having these children on schools’ rolls. As such, our ODA spending in future years will be primarily dependent on the number of asylum seeker children arriving in the country.

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