Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the projection of the Bank of England in its Monetary Policy Report, published in November 2020, that GDP will reduce by 11 per cent in 2020, what recent projection the Government has made of the value of Official Development Assistance in 2020.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for producing forecasts of the economy and public finances, not the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The last official OBR forecast of Gross National Income (GNI) for 2020 was published on 11 March 2020 and so did not reflect the impact of COVID-19. OBR will publish their next forecast of GNI for 2020 on 25 November.