Downing Street Says » Aid Budget

» Monday, February 14, 2011

Aid Budget

When asked if the Government was still committed to giving 1billion of aid to India, the PMS said that we had always been very clear that we were committed to increasing our aid budget to 0.7% of GDP and we would stick to that. Some of the poorest people in the world lived in India and that’s why we would be maintaining a development programme there for a transitional period.

Asked why UK taxpayers should give money to countries such as India when they were indulging in space programmes for example, the PMS replied that there were many poor people in India and the Government had been clear about maintaining its commitment to the aid budget and its aid obligations.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

Name (required)
E-mail (required)
(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
Website
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Original PMOS briefings are © Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Click-use licence number C02W0004089. Material is reproduced from the original 10 Downing Street source, but may not be the most up-to-date version of the briefings, which might be revised at the original source. Users should check with the original source in case of revisions. Comments are © Copyright contributors. Everything else is © Copyright Downing Street Says.