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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Expenditure

Asked by Wendy MortonConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 17 July 2025UIN 66929

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2025 to Question 63636 on BBC World Service, which projects were not settled in the Spending Review and will be determined under separate consideration in the autumn.

Answered by Catherine West

We now have our departmental allocation in the Spending Review. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Official Development Assistance (ODA) and non-ODA allocations and the impact on programmes, including the BBC World Service, are being worked through between now and the autumn.

The World Service's Grant-in-Aid funding for the next three years will be decided through this process.

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