Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what reductions in the UK aid budget he has asked the (a) Foreign and Commonwealth Office, (b) Ministry of Justice, (c) Departments for (i) International Development, (ii) International Trade, (iii) Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (iv) Digital Culture, Media and Sport and (v) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (d) Department of Health and Social Care to make in 2020-21.

The UK has a legal commitment to spend 0.7% of its gross national income (GNI) each year on Official Development Assistance (ODA). The government reviews the ODA funding it allocates to projects on a regular basis in order to ensure delivery of its commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on ODA. Given the expected fall in GNI this year, commitments of aid spending are being reviewed across all ODA spending departments.