Question follow-through · 37854
Developing Countries
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's top development priorities are.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's top development priorities are.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
The UK remains committed to investing internationally to build a safer world. Reducing the overall size of our Official Development Assistance budget will necessarily have an impact on the scale and shape of the work we do. We will set out how our spendin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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