Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK is on course to spend 0.3 per cent of GNI as Official Development Assistance outside the UK in 2022.

The UK Government is prioritising essential overseas aid funding, while also meeting needs of people seeking sanctuary in the UK from conflict in Ukraine and Afghanistan. We are working through how best to manage ODA budget pressures with HM Treasury and bring certainty to our development programmes, in line with the timing of the Autumn Statement. All UK aid continues to be spent in line with the international rules on what constitutes ODA set by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. Provisional and final official UK ODA spend data for 2022 will be published as normal in the Spring and Autumn of 2023 respectively.