Nearly a quarter of the honor assistance budget will be spent at Sharan Awas in the UK next year, while the total expenditure is suffering from dramatic deductions.
Distribute it spending review MPs plan, Chancellor on Wednesday Rahel reeves Said that the government plans to end “expensive” Use of hotels for shelters By July 2029, which is paid by foreign aid budget. But a rule change means that any savings will not be used to spend abroad.
In 2024/25, the assistance budget was spent twenty -one percent of the assistance budget for refugees for refugees, which is due to increasing up to 23 percent next year, as overall funding for assistance has decreased.
Cuts will leave the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with low money to spend on projects that treat the largest causes of child mortality and pay in global systems that fund vaccines and treatments for HIV, TB and malaria.
“Not only the Kir Stmper records the first labor Prime Minister who are on record for not increasing the assistance, but also to make the most serious deduction to assist investing in other countries in decades – going beyond the thecher, Major, Johnson, or craze,” said Adrian Lavate, the executive director of a campaign, said, a charity that works to end poverty in Africa.
Ms. Reeves confirmed the plans announced by the Prime Minister in February, which to spend a support of 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of the GDP of UK – a measure of the total property of the country – 40 percent reduction in funds.
What today it turned out how the money will be shared between different departments: FCDO which mainly spends money on projects in developing countries, and home office and other departments that pay for refugee costs in the UK.
Sharan Housing ‘Disaster’
The house office is ready to receive £ 5.8bn in the next three years to pay for refugee housing, while FCDO receives £ 19.9BN to pay for foreign development.
Charity Refugee Action described asylum housing system as a “disaster”.
“The cost of the taxpayer has hit the sky and the money has been taken away [aid] Budget while people seeking security have been kept in the assets that are separate and their health is in danger, “said Tatiliadim, the chief of refugee action campaigns.
Instead, refugees and refugeers should be provided more suitable and more affordable housing within communities, the charity said.
After next year, the share of assistance on refugee costs will start coming down, but this will not benefit the assistance projects, at least in short -term. A rule change means that any savings will not be used to spend abroad, at least in the next three years.
Earlier, when the home office overseas costs on the refugee, FCDO will have to find additional money to cover it. But if this aid outlines from its part of the pot, that money will be sent back to FCDO. Now any savings will return to Treasury Cofers.
‘Stealth Cut’
“There seems to be a contradiction in the midst of the Chancellor’s claim that the cost related to the refugee will be £ 1 billion per year and there will be a relatively low decrease in the planned. [development] Spending on these costs, “Gidon Rabinovitz, Director of Policy and Planning in a network bond of development organizations, said.
“It causes anxiety that the Treasury can keep extra savings for itself, effectively make a hidden ‘secret cut’ [aid] The budget that can push it below 0.3 percent ”. The government has said that it will spend.
Bond welcomed the plan to end the use of the hotel by the end of this Parliament, but hoped that the government would go ahead. With more than 100 partner aid organizations, in April, Bond called upon the government to use a brake clause in its hotel contracts to end them next year.
The UK is not alone in cutting its aid budget. Many rich countries have announced a cut in their development expenses in recent months, as well as with a change to spend more on defense.
But this is the US that has stood on the sheer scale of its cuts, which are already having a widespread disastrous impact, leaving millions of people on the verge of famine, to derail the end of AIDS epidemic, to run millions of prevention deaths.
The UK, as one of the largest spendings on global health, is actually quite well placed ”said the PT Baker, Deputy Director of the Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development to fill the vacuum left by the US.
“I think the lack of leadership is very painful right now.”
This story is part of The Independents Global assistance reconsideration Project