Keeping the aid target at 0.5 per cent of GNI would mean that the aid budget in 2027 would be around £15.4 billion. ALSO READ: UK on spot over ‘ignorance, confusion’ about DR Congo crisis In ...

On the 25 February, the UK Prime Minister announced that the UK will increase defence spending to 2.5% of UK gross national ...

Savage’ UK cuts will deprive 55m people of aid around the world - IN FOCUS: Exclusive: The cuts will result in a reduction of key programmes for education, family planning, water and food aid. Alicja ...

“The UK now sets the ODA budget based on GNI forecasts at an SR [Spending Review] and these will not be adjusted for GNI fluctuations,” development minister Jenny Chapman wrote in a letter to ...

Political changes, higher defence spending and a shift in focus towards national priorities have seen many European aid budgets slashed recently.

In 1970, the United Nations took up a commission-recommended resolution that donor nations set a target of giving no less than 0.7% of gross national income as official development assistance ...

The UK was one – and the scale of the cut was savage. At 0.3 per cent of gross national income (GNI), the UK’s aid contribution is now at its lowest for 25 years. It is a far cry from the 0.7 per cent ...

US TerraPower has submitted a letter to the UK Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) announcing its ...