Rejected petition The Government should to its commitment on Foreign Aid

The Government should keep to its commitment to spending 0.7% of GDP on Foreign Aid.

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The new Foreign Office permanent secretary, Sir Philip Barton, appearing at the foreign affairs select committee two weeks ago, provided no details on this year’s near £2.9bn cuts to aid, but said the department’s priorities were Covid health requirements, girls’ education, climate change and biodiversity, the “bottom billion” poorest people and defending open societies, human rights and “force-for-good” programming.

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Date submitted 23 November 2020
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