Lord Renwick of Clifton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Renwick of Clifton on 2015-12-03.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the UK overseas aid budget is devoted to job creation.
Baroness Verma
DFID has committed to increase spending on economic development to £1.8 billion by 2015/16. This will help to create more and better jobs, including for women and youth, supporting countries to lift themselves out of poverty and aid dependency.