Question follow-through · 33330

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Official Development Assistance budget is spent overseas.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 24 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the Official Development Assistance budget is spent overseas.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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4 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Home Secretary is committed to ensuring asylum costs fall and has already acted. This includes taking measures to reduce the asylum backlog and end the use of expensive hotel accommodation.As the Prime Minister said in the House, as we clear the asylu...

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