Question follow-through · 48244
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has learned lessons from the implementation of Official Development Assistance reductions in 2020-21.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 25 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 2 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has learned lessons from the implementation of Official Development Assistance reductions in 2020-21.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 May 2025
Answer published
The Government has learned lessons from previous rounds of reductions to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget.We recognise that the reduction demands significant shifts in the scale and shape of our ODA spending, which is why we are taking the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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