Question follow-through · 90966
Development Aid: Asylum
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether funding saved by reducing the cost of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK will be given to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to spend on international aid overseas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether funding saved by reducing the cost of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK will be given to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to spend on international aid overseas.
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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18 Nov 2025
Answer published
At Spring Statement 2025, the government confirmed that ODA budgets across the Spending Review period would be set in cash terms, based on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s spring 2025 forecast of gross national income (GNI). This means the FCDO’s OD...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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