{"id":64602,"date":"2015-11-25T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5c0727b8189263ea2170e0d1da58e3c1"},"modified":"2015-11-25T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:18:46","slug":"press-release-department-for-international-developments-settlement-at-the-spending-review-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64602","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Department for International Development\u2019s settlement at the Spending Review 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Spending Review and Autumn Statement delivers on the government\u2019s priority to provide security to working people at every stage of their lives. It sets out a 4 year plan to fix the public finances, return the country to surplus and run a healthy economy that starts to pay down the debt.  By ensuring Britain\u2019s long term economic security, the government is able to spend \u00a34 trillion on its priorities over the next 4 years. <\/p>\n<p>For <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> this means: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing <abbr title=\"Offical Development Assistance (ie overseas aid)\">ODA<\/abbr> spend across government to meet the commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income (<abbr title=\"gross national income\">GNI<\/abbr>) as offical development assistance (<abbr title=\"Offical Development Assistance (ie overseas aid)\">ODA<\/abbr>), shaped by a new aid strategy that both supports poverty reduction and aligns aid spending with the UK\u2019s national interest<\/li>\n<li>allocating 50% of <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr>\u2019s budget to fragile states and regions in every year of this Parliament, a major investment in global stability, including in regions of strategic importance to the UK, such as the Middle East, South Asia and Africa<\/li>\n<li>establishing a new \u00a3500 million <abbr title=\"Offical Development Assistance (ie overseas aid)\">ODA<\/abbr> crisis reserve, enabling flexible, quick and effective cross-government responses to crises as they happen and a \u00a31 billion new fund (working with the Department of Health) over the next 5 years for research and development of products for infectious diseases<\/li>\n<li>efficiency savings of over \u00a3400 million by 2019-20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"7\">Department for International Development<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\u00a3 billion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>2015-16 baseline<\/td>\n<td>2016-17<\/td>\n<td>2017-18<\/td>\n<td>2018-19<\/td>\n<td>2019-20<\/td>\n<td>2020-21 (2)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Resource <abbr title=\"Departmental expenditure limit\">DEL<\/abbr> (1)<\/td>\n<td>8.5<\/td>\n<td>9.1<\/td>\n<td>9.3<\/td>\n<td>10.7<\/td>\n<td>11.0<\/td>\n<td>*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Capital <abbr title=\"Departmental expenditure limit\">DEL<\/abbr>\n<\/td>\n<td>2.6<\/td>\n<td>2.7<\/td>\n<td>3.2<\/td>\n<td>2.8<\/td>\n<td>3.1<\/td>\n<td>3.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total <abbr title=\"Departmental expenditure limit\">DEL<\/abbr>\n<\/td>\n<td>11.1<\/td>\n<td>11.8<\/td>\n<td>12.6<\/td>\n<td>13.6<\/td>\n<td>14.2<\/td>\n<td>*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Of which cross-government <abbr title=\"Offical Development Assistance (ie overseas aid)\">ODA<\/abbr> funding<\/td>\n<td>1.2<\/td>\n<td>1.6<\/td>\n<td>2.2<\/td>\n<td>2.7<\/td>\n<td>3.1<\/td>\n<td>*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(1)\tIn this table, Resource <abbr title=\"Departmental expenditure limit\">DEL<\/abbr> excludes depreciation<\/p>\n<p>(2)\t2020-21 Resource <abbr title=\"Departmental expenditure limit\">DEL<\/abbr> departmental budgets have only been set for some departments. For the rest, these budgets will be set in full at the next Spending Review.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"security\">Security<\/h3>\n<p>Shaped by a new aid strategy, <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> will work to strengthen global peace and security. The government will increase aid spending to tackle the crisis in Syria and the related region. The government will also expand the cross-government Conflict, Security and Stability Fund from \u00a31 billion in 2015-16 to over \u00a31.3 billion by 2019-20. This will include increased resource and expertise to tackle the drivers of violent conflict which threaten stability and development.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"long-term-investment\">Long term investment<\/h3>\n<p>Emerging and developing economies are becoming increasingly important for global growth, and the government will give greater priority to promoting the economic reforms needed to support this. The Spending Review creates a new National Security Council led Prosperity Fund, worth \u00a31.3 billion over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> will continue to invest in improving the lives of the world\u2019s poorest. This investment will include getting 11 million children into school, helping 60 million people get access to clean water and sanitation, saving 1.4 million children\u2019s lives through immunisations, and improving nutrition for at least 50 million people.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> will continue to invest more in building countries\u2019 resilience to shocks and climate change through a 50% increase in government spending through the International Climate Fund.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"reform\">Reform<\/h3>\n<p>The government has set out a new approach to UK aid spending in its new aid strategy. Development spending will be reshaped according to the government\u2019s 4 strategic objectives of; strengthening global peace, security and governance; strengthening resilience and response to crises; promoting global prosperity; and tackling extreme poverty and helping the world\u2019s most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> will continue to improve the impact of UK aid, including through cutting programmes that are poor value for money or have a weak fit with the government\u2019s strategic objectives and reprioritising spending. This includes continuing the move away from traditional general budget support (unearmarked contributions to recipient countries\u2019 budgets) to more targeted forms of financing.<\/p>\n<p>The government will aim for the first time for all UK government departments to be ranked as \u2018good\u2019 or \u2018very good\u2019 in the international Aid Transparency Index within the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> will make efficiency savings of over \u00a3400 million by 2019-20 through transformation of its administrative functions including improved central contract management, digital platform and technology. These savings will be recycled to deliver <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr>\u2019s aid commitments.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"international-development-secretary-justine-greening-said\">International Development Secretary Justine Greening said:<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our UK aid strategy sets out how Britain will tackle extreme poverty and in doing so protect our own national security and interests.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr>-led UK response to Ebola alongside our work on the Syrian refugee crisis shows how <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> is playing an increasingly important role in the UK government\u2019s efforts to tackle global problems such as terrorism, disease and migration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our determination to achieve value for money will continue to underpin our international development strategy across government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_5\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk\">pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7023 0600\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Follow the <abbr title=\"Department for International Development\">DFID<\/abbr> Press office on Twitter &#8211; @DFID_Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor has published the results of the spending review, including details of the Department for International Development (DFID) budget over the course of this Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}