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Development Aid: Forests and Indigenous Peoples

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what financial support his Department provides for the protection of (a) rainforests and (b) Indigenous People and Local Communities in a context of aid cuts.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
17 Jul 2025
Answer
22 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what financial support his Department provides for the protection of (a) rainforests and (b) Indigenous People and Local Communities in a context of aid cuts.

  2. 17 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    It remains the Government's ambition to deliver £11.6 billion of International Climate Finance between April 2021 and March 2026, of which £1.5 billion should be for forests. In the context of aid cuts, we will sharpen the focus of our Official Developmen...

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