Developing Countries: Debts
(asked on 27th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of outstanding (a) loans and (b) debts liable to the UK from lower-income countries.
This question was answered on 4th November 2025
The value of outstanding debt from Low Income Countries to the UK is approximately £2.1bn as of August 2024.
This data is publicly available in the ‘Report on outstanding debt owed by other countries to His Majesty’s Government in 2024’, published on gov.uk in December 2024. Low Income Countries are defined in this response using the Development Assistance Committee list of Least Developed Countries from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.