Question follow-through · 22023

Development Aid

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the additional annual cost to the Exchequer of increasing Official Development Assistance spending from 0.3 per cent to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income in each of the next fi

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
4 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an estimate of the additional annual cost to the Exchequer of increasing Official Development Assistance spending from 0.3 per cent to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income in each of the next fi

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    At Spring Statement 2025 the Government took the decision to reduce the UK ODA budget to the equivalent of 0.3% of GNI by 2027 to fund a necessary increase in defence spending. Spending Review 2025 details departmental ODA budgets 2025/26 to 2028/29 that ...

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