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«The Tories «will examine the scope for allocating some funding from the international aid budget» to pay for military - backed stabilisation work.»

Conservative backbenchers suggest international aid budget might be used to limit cuts to BBC World Service

Only weeks ago the Tories had pledged that, although they intended to cut public spending if elected, they would protect overall health and international aid budgets.

Weeks previously the Tories had pledged to protect overall health and international aid budgets.

Not exact matches

Remedial action on this front will require extreme vigilance over foreign aid budgets, and careful attention will have to be paid to the Clinton Administration as it tries to square its adherence to an international agreement that flatly rejects abortion as a means of family planning with its commitment to huge increases in U.S. aid funding to organizations that actively promote precisely that evil.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

The Trump administration released its budget blueprint Thursday, which outlines the anticipated cutbacks to international aid programs.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

Our commitment to ring - fence the budget of the Department for International Development, and meet the target of spending 0.7 % of Gross National Income by 2013 on foreign aid, are founded on our conviction that the issues of development, security and trade are intertwined.

In 2013, international aid amounted to 20 % of the GDP and 49 % of budget (World Bank).

When David Cameron addressed the Conservative Party conference in September, he cited his party's protection of the aid budget as an example of his government's international leadership.

Aid budgets are contracting, and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and other subnational civil - military installations — long key international platforms to distribute aid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing doAid budgets are contracting, and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and other subnational civil - military installations — long key international platforms to distribute aid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing doaid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing down.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

The public accounts committee warned that officials at the Department for International Development had failed to lay out their plans for mitigating against malpractise in the fragile states where the UK's aid budget is to be spent.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

With the vast majority of the NIAF project's budget being spent on international consultants, not on new power stations or connections to link poor communities to the grid, it's difficult to imagine a more disastrous use of aid money.

There is no cross-party consensus on international development, despite Tory promises to ringfence the aid budget, Douglas Alexander said this morning.

If you want to understand why Osborne ring - fenced the international development budget, remember that for his generation, Live Aid was a formative event to rank with Mandela's release and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

the Tories have ring fenced Overseas Aid budget - they are not a threat to International Development policy are they?

Instead, international aid has propped up basic services in Cambodia for over 15 years, providing the equivalent of 50 % of the government budget.

Since the budgets of international food aid agencies are set well in advance, a rise in food prices shrinks food assistance.

International food aid flows are being slashed as rising grain prices collide with fixed budgets.