The UK’s large-scale aid cuts will have a “huge impact”, the new development minister has admitted to MPs – but, she said, the days of viewing Britain “as a global charity” are over.
Jenny Chapman replaced Anneliese Dodds as development minister in February. Dodds resigned in protest at the prime minister’s plan to cut aid spending from 0.5 per cent to 0.3 per cent of the UK’s gross national income (GNI) – a measure of the nation’s total wealth. That amounts to roughly £6 billion cut from a current budget of £15.4bn.
