John Pugh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2015-10-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect on her Department’s work of re-allocating elements of her Department’s budget to help local authorities deal with Syrian refugees.

Justine Greening

There will be no substantive impact on existing DFID programming. It is right that we work with communities in the UK taking refugees as we do elsewhere in the world, but of course, we will stay within ODA rules.