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Development Aid: Voluntary Organisations

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL13596, tabled on 23 February 2021

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to deliver the next phase of the Volunteering for Development programme.

Answered on

9 March 2021

The impact of the global pandemic on the UK economy has forced us to take the tough but necessary decision to temporarily reduce our aid budget. We are now working through the implications of these changes for individual programmes, including for the Volunteering for Development grant. No decisions have yet been made.