Question follow-through · 28907
USA: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the suspension of USAID programmes on his Department's international development programmes.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
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 suspension of USAID programmes on his Department's international development programmes.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
We are currently working to assess the implications of the US funding pause across development sectors. We welcome the news that emergency food aid and life-saving humanitarian assistance should be exempt from the pause in US foreign aid. The UK's commitm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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