Question follow-through · 59035

Voluntary Service Overseas: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recent reduction in foreign aid to 0.3% of GDP on the future of Voluntary Service Overseas.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 11 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jun 2025
Answer: 26 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recent reduction in foreign aid to 0.3% of GDP on the future of Voluntary Service Overseas.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
Following the Spending Review, detailed decisions on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be used are being worked through as part of ongoing resource allocation processes, based on various factors including impact assessments. We are...

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