Question follow-through · 16509
Development Aid
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by what process the percentage of 0.5 of Gross National Income for Official Development Assistance was decided.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by what process the percentage of 0.5 of Gross National Income for Official Development Assistance was decided.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government remains committed to restoring ODA spending to 0.7% of GNI as soon as fiscal circumstances allow, but the latest OBR forecasts show that ODA fiscal tests which determine a return to 0.7% are not due to be met within this Parliament. HMT has...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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