Britain's foreign aid spending is ballooning faster than that of any other major nation, making the country ‘the mugs of the world’, critics warn today. The UK is the only member of the G7 ...

Western countries have slashed foreign aid budgets this year and reductions will steepen in 2026, with the United States, ...

UK aid cuts are even harsher than they first appeared. And the scale is horrifying - COMMENT: Many of us hoped the worst ...

Here, The Independent takes a look at how much the UK spends on foreign aid and what the money has funded over the years. Britain spends roughly 0.5 per cent of annual gross national income on ...

The UN Secretary-General warned that the US aid cuts will be "devastating for vulnerable people around the world...from Gaza to Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine and beyond.” The UK’s ...

The UK temporarily paused overseas development aid that is not deemed critical because of concerns about rising pressure on government budgets, people familiar with the matter said. The Foreign ...

The amount of overseas aid funding diverted to support refugees in the UK rose to £4.3billion last year, new figures have shown. Provisional statistics published on Wednesday showed spending on ...

The Government slashed the foreign aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of UK national income in 2021, as well as letting departments other than the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO ...

These ‘tough decisions’ in the name of national security demand interrogation, writes Maxine Betteridge-Moes. Aid agencies across the UK are reeling from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s surprise ...

Yesterday, in a written Ministerial Statement on Official Development Assistance (ODA), the government revealed that there would now be an additional £1 billion this year and £1.5 billion next year in ...