UK Slashes Climate and Development Aid in Major Budget Refocus

Move will put national security and lives overseas at risk, critics say, as overall UK aid budget is slashed to 0.3% of gross national income

From more small boats crossing the channel to families in poverty across Africa being hit hard, the truth is clear, writes Sarah Champion, chair of parliament's International Development Select Committee

The move follows bitter rows with ... deeper cuts owing to pressure on spending resulting from the war in Iran. Overall, the UK’s aid budget was slashed to 0.3% of gross national income, with programmes on health, education and humanitarian assistance all facing the axe. Climate spending will ...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told parliament that the UK's climate finance commitment would be cut to around £6 billion or three years – roughly £2bn a year, down from £2.3bn annually under the previous five-year arrangement. The overall aid budget has been reduced from 0.5 per cent ...

UK’s bilateral aid to African countries, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

Bond, a UK network for international development organisations, warned there are severe cuts, particularly for the Middle East and Africa. Making a statement to MPs, Cooper said direct bilateral aid funding would be reduced but support to "proven global partnerships", including the vaccine alliance Gavi, would continue. Helping fragile states, tackling violence against women and girls, and responding to climate ...

The government is to cut climate finance for developing countries to an estimated £2bn a year as part of a "refocus" of aid spending, which will see the overall overseas development budget cut to 0.3 per... To continue reading this article... In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to: Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news...

Reacting to the news that Britain will cut its aid to developing countries aimed at combatting climate change, Polanski said: “Appalling and just unbelievably short-sighted. Our security here in the U.K.

The UK will cut its climate aid to developing countries by about 14%, to roughly £2bn per year, says the Guardian. The newspaper adds that, overall, the UK’s aid budget was cut to 0.35 of gross national income, following “bitter rows with the Treasury, which wanted deeper cuts owing to ...

Conservative shadow Foreign Office ... said a reduction in funding "has to be accompanied by genuine reform" but warned "very little" is known about this. International rules allow governments to spend some of their foreign aid budgets at home to support asylum seekers during the first year after their arrival. Government statistics show it spent £2.8bn, or 20% of its aid budget, supporting refugees in the UK in ...