Growing proportion of aid budget to be spent on asylum hotels next year

Rachel Reeves delivering the spending review - (House of Commons)

Almost a quarter of the overseas aid budget will be spent on asylum accommodation in the UK next year while overall spending suffers dramatic cuts.

This will leave the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with less money to spend on projects that treat the biggest causes of child mortality and to pay into global systems that fund vaccines and treatments for HIV, TB and malaria.