Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the European Commission’s new disclaimer for aid contracts, which states that if the UK withdraws from the EU without concluding a withdrawal agreement that ensures that UK applicants continue to be eligible, then UK charities will cease to receive EU funding.

We are clear that this disclaimer must be removed by the European Commission. As it stands, they are hindering British aid organisations’ ability to deliver the common goal of alleviating poverty, which would hit the world’s poorest people hardest.