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Should Our Foreign Aid Budget Be Spent On Helping Out Our British Overseas Territories In Their Hour Of Need?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If there is such a rule it's easy to get round. We can simply provide a sum of say £100m from other funds, and can then recoup it by making sure we underspend our foreign aid budget by an equivalent amount. I know there is our own law here that we must allocate 0.7% of GDP to FA but I don't that would be stumbling block here
TTT are you not happy the government is restricted in its use of funds you believe should not be available in the first place?
I would have thought the money can be released from the fund but when it comes to accounting for it, it can't be said to be included in the 0.7% we spent on overseas aid this year.
I would have thought the money can be released from the fund but when it comes to accounting for it, it can't be said to be included in the 0.7% we spent on overseas aid this year.
If the international rules state it doesn't count as foreign aid if the aid goes somewhere wealthy then them's the rules. So money to nuclear powers isn't foreign aid. We aren't forced to stick to the rules though. We can provide less foreign aid and spend elsewhere if we've a mind to. But it may mean we fall short of offering the official foreign aid we said we'd provide.
I do rather think foreign aid should be scrapped and a humanitarian aid fund set up instead.
A smaller amount of government money but they have to fundrais for the rest. Perhaps just like Red Nose Day and comic relief.
Natural disasters and tragic accidents, that sort of thing.
No money for countries with a space race or nuclear weapons. If they can afford either so these they don't need aid.
A smaller amount of government money but they have to fundrais for the rest. Perhaps just like Red Nose Day and comic relief.
Natural disasters and tragic accidents, that sort of thing.
No money for countries with a space race or nuclear weapons. If they can afford either so these they don't need aid.
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