Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of using Official Development Assistance funding for programmes by the Home Department on his international development priorities.

Under the OECD rules, some support provided to asylum seekers or refugees is ODA-eligible for their first year in the UK if they came from ODA-eligible countries.

The UK uses internationally agreed OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rules to determine what spending is classified as ODA.