Government allocated 0.43% of national income to aid in 2025, with total spend down £1bn on previous year The UK government’s spending on foreign aid has hit its lowest level in nearly two decades, figures show, as humanitarian experts say the cuts are costing lives. Provisional data shows the government allocated 0.43% of national income to official development assistance (ODA) in 2025, down from 0.5% in 2024 and matching the level in 2008. The total ODA spend in 2025 was just over £13bn, an annual decrease of £1bn, or 7.4%. Discounting the reduction in spending during the Covid crisis in 2021 and 2022, total aid allocations fell to the lowest level since 2015, when just over £12bn was allocated. This figure represented 0.7% of national income at that time. Gideon Rabinowitz, the director of policy and advocacy at Bond, a UK network of organisations working in international development, said severe damage had already been done by aid cuts, which are expected to be the steepest of all G7 countries in the coming year. He said: “Life-saving humanitarian programmes, including education provision in Syria and healthcare programmes across Africa, have already been forced to close, and w
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Government allocated 0.43% of national income to aid in 2025, with total spend down £1bn on previous year The UK government’s spending on foreign aid has hit its lowest level in nearly two decades, figures show, as humanitarian experts say…
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