Speeches

David Simpson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Simpson on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made on meeting the target of committing 0.7 per cent of national income to international aid.

Rory Stewart

The UK has met the international commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on Official Development Assistance in recent years and we will continue to do so