Carol Monaghan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Carol Monaghan on 2015-10-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any of her Department’s spending will be counted towards the target of spending 2 per cent of gross national income on defence.

Justine Greening

In 2014/15, the Ministry of Defence provided fantastic support to DFID to support humanitarian activities, contributing £32million, and was therefore reimbursed from the ODA budget. This spending will count towards the target to spend 2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence.