Lord Vinson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Vinson on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to classify the cost of armed intervention to achieve regime change as overseas aid.

Lord Bates

No – the use of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for general military activities is circumscribed; ODA can only be used in well-defined training on a limited list of topics consistent with development objectives, for example in human rights and humanitarian law.