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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Development Aid: Poverty (13 February 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid is committed to poverty reduction overseas.

Asked by:
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)

Answer

All UK Aid aims to support delivery of the UN’s Global Goals, end extreme poverty, promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries and is spent in line with the OECD DAC guidelines on what constitutes Official Development Assistance.


Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
18 February 2019

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