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	date	29/10/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	International Monetary System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to include the rechannelling of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to low-income countries within the 0.5 per cent Official Development Assistance budget.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	66205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2021 answer text <p>The UK’s channeling of its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) provides valuable financial support to the poorest and the most vulnerable countries.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental ODA budgets will be increasing significantly over the Spending Review period, from the £10 billion that was allocated in 2020 to at least £12.3 billion by 2024-25. The ODA scored through SDR channelling is additional to these growing departmental ODA budgets and will not require cuts to existing programming. As with all ODA eligible spend, it will count towards the UK’s annual ODA spending plans, in line with international rules.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 04/11/2021 10:37:50 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

1364591

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2021
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to count the cost of the donated covid-19 vaccine doses as additional to the 0.5 per cent Official Development Assistance budget.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	66206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2021 answer text <p>The cost of COVID-19 vaccine donations for 2021 has been additional to the ODA budget set out at the Spending Review 2020 (SR20) for 2021-22, but is expected to remain within 0.5% of GNI given the growth in GNI forecasts since SR20.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental ODA budgets are increasing significantly over the Spending Review 2021 (SR21) period due to forecast growth in gross national income. SR21 fully covers the cost of vaccine donations to meet the Prime Minister’s commitment to donate 100 million surplus doses by June 2022, as part of the G7 dose-sharing commitments, to drive an intensified effort to vaccinate the world by 2022.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 04/11/2021 10:30:09 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law