Question follow-through · 44453

Development Aid

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the percentage of funding that will be released to the Ministry of Defence of a result of the change in Gross National Income spent on Official Development Assistance in 2025-2026.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 7 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the percentage of funding that will be released to the Ministry of Defence of a result of the change in Gross National Income spent on Official Development Assistance in 2025-2026.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
As set out in Table 2.1 in the Spring Statement 2025 document, all savings generated from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) reduction in 2025-26 will be spent on defence. The difficult choice to reduce ODA reflects the evolving nature of the threa...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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