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 Monday 7 March 2022.

Reports, special reports and government responses

No reports or special reports published.

Correspondence

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Correspondence from the Minister for Development & Africa & Permanent and Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State relating to Diversity within the FCDO - 21 February 2024
Inquiry Future of UK aid
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Correspondence to the Minister for Development & Africa & Permanent and Second Permanent Under-Secretary relating to Diversity within the FCDO - 13 February 2024
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Correspondence from the Minister for Development & Africa relating to an update on UK ODA for 2023 - 20 December 2023
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Oral evidence transcripts

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20 June 2023
Inquiry Future of UK aid
Witnesses James Cleverly (Secretary of State at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Nick Dyer (Director General Humanitarian and Development at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
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6 December 2022
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18 May 2022
Inquiry Future of UK aid
Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Written evidence

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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FUA0093)
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FUA0092)
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FUA0091)
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Other publications

Scrutiny evidence
Evidence received in the course of conducting legislative scrutiny.
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Estimate memoranda
Explanatory memoranda that accompany Government Estimates.
2 published

Contact us

  • Email: indcom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 1223 (general enquiries) |0207 219 8969 (media enquiries)
  • Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA