Committees

Future of UK aid

Inquiry

The International Development Committee conducting ongoing scrutiny work into the changes to the aid budget. Work in this area including the scrutiny of the cut from spending 0.7% to 0.5% of UK GNI on ODA, the merger of the FCO and DFID and the conclusions of the Integrated Review. This work also considered ongoing implementation of the International Development Strategy.

Following submissions to the inquiry on recent changes to the UK aid budget, we published a summary of the evidence here.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:30am on 7 March 2022.

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Past events

Tuesday 20 June 2023
2:30pm Public
Future of UK aid - Oral evidence 20 June 2023
2:30pm
  • Rt Hon James Cleverly (Secretary of State at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
  • Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
  • Nick Dyer (Director General Humanitarian and Development at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday 6 December 2022
2:30pm Public
Future of UK aid - Oral evidence 6 December 2022
2:30pm
  • Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell (Minister of State (Development and Africa) at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 18 May 2022
2:30pm Public
Future of UK aid - Oral evidence 18 May 2022
2:30pm
  • Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
  • Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
  • Nick Dyer (Director General - Humanitarian and Development at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday 22 March 2022
2:30pm Public
Future of UK aid - Oral evidence 22 March 2022
2:30pm
  • Katherine Nightingale (Head, Advocacy and Policy Team at CARE International UK)
  • Kathleen Spencer-Chapman (Head of Policy, Advocacy and Research at Plan International UK)
  • Naomi Gokwat (Programme Coordinator for Nigeria at Women for Women International)
3:15pm
  • Hannah Loryman (Head of Policy at Sightsavers)
  • George Graham (Chief Executive at Humanity & Inclusion UK)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Contact us

We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.

  • Email: indcom@parliament.uk
  • Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA