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Development Aid: National Income

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 46612, tabled on 17 April 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford
Conservative
Farnham and Bordon
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to not provide Official Development Assistance to countries that have higher (a) gross domestic product and (b) purchasing parity power than the UK.

Answer

Stephen Doughty
Labour
Cardiff South and Penarth
Commons

Answered on

24 April 2025

Decisions on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget will be used are being worked through as part of the ongoing Spending Review. We plan to publish final 2025/26 ODA programme allocations in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Annual Report & Accounts this summer.

All UK ODA spending is consistent with the international rules agreed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee. Under these rules, ODA can only be provided to countries with a per capita Gross National Income of less than US$13,845 in 2022.

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