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Chancellor confirms £300m MORE will go on foreign aid… even as he hikes taxes to balance books
Whitehall officials have to find more projects to splurge the extra cash
UK taxpayers will be forced to spend an extra £300million in foreign aid by the end of the decade.
Ministers are bound by law to pay 0.7 per cent of national income in aid.
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And because Britain’s economy is out-stripping doom-laden Brexit forecasts, the foreign aid budget will have to grow.
It means Whitehall officials will have to find more projects to splurge the extra cash.
The foreign aid budget was already due to reach more than £16billion a year by 2020.
The hike in foreign aid spending was slipped out in yesterday’s Budget documents.