Question follow-through · 1721

Development Aid: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Prosperity Fund in 2021 on his Department's work to reduce poverty.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 25 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 29 Jul 2024
Answer: 2 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Prosperity Fund in 2021 on his Department's work to reduce poverty.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Aug 2024
Answer published
The cross-government Prosperity Fund ended on 31 March 2021 and prosperity programming moved to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. While some programmes closed, other programmes continued to run and continue to support fighting global pover...

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