MPs call on ministers to ringfence the cash for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries, saying the 'political choice' to spend it on accommodation is 'a self-defeating decision' which will increase the numbers of refugees coming to the UK.
"I have been absolutely staggered by the level of this raid. It has meant that our foreign aid is being spent in the UK, not in the countries that are most in need of it around the world.… to take it away from the low and middle income countries where we could be dealing with the reasons people are forced to flee their homes seems utterly nonsensical to me."The foreign aid budget had been set at 0.
And they accused the government of"wilfully attempting to prevent us carrying out our scrutiny role" by refusing to provide them with the most up-to-date statistics.Former PM Theresa May voted against cuts to foreign aid back in 2021. A government spokesperson said they had"acted decisively and compassionately" to support people from Ukraine and Afghanistan, and provided an additional £2.5bn of funding for that purpose.
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