Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the National Audit Office's report entitled Managing reductions in Official Development Assistance spending published on 31 March 2022, if she will make an assessment of the impact on development outcomes of the budget allocation exercise in 2021 referred to in recommendation (a) of that report.

The FCDO and HMT will identify lessons learned from the 2021 budget allocation exercise, taking into account the recommendations of this report, including recommendation (a).