In the Lords

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat the Answer to an Urgent Question in the other place from my honourable friend the

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat the Answer to an Urgent Question in the other place from my honourable friend the

My Lords, the FCDO’s annual report and accounts will be laid in Parliament before the Summer Recess and will include details of the FCDO’s O

The Foreign Secretary confirmed recently that the FCDO will spend £745 million on bilateral women and girls programmes this financial year.

It is worth saying that the UK remains one of the largest donors globally.

All the allocations will be published in due course, but I can tell the noble Lord that a very large percentage of Commonwealth members are

My noble friend makes an important point. As he says, the majority of overseas territories do not qualify for ODA.

The noble Lord makes a hugely important point, and of course the Government share his view.

My Lords, the Government published their UK strategy for international development on 16 May this year.

The noble Lord is right that the UK is currently doing all it can to encourage donor countries to increase the finance they make available f