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Development Aid: Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the proportion of official development assistance that is provided to global religious minorities.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 21 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 23 Oct 2024
Answer: 29 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

21 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the proportion of official development assistance that is provided to global religious minorities.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK will champion Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) for all abroad. No one should live in fear because of what they do or do not believe in. The official source of data on UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) is Statistics on International Devel...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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