Question follow-through · 105182
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Official Development Assistance reaches those most in need.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Official Development Assistance reaches those most in need.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the responses given on 20 January to the identical set of questions received from the Member for South Cambridgeshire on 12 January (UINs 105089 to 105096).
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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