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<p>There are no restrictions in UK or international law on the support for reconstruction
that we can provide to the overseas territories.</p><p>There are, however, rules on
what is counted as Official Development Assistance (ODA), which are set by the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
These rules include a list of the developing countries and territories to which support
given by donors can be classed as ODA. In the case of Anguilla, the British Virgin
Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands, their Gross National Income per capita exceeds
the limit for them to be considered developing countries. The Secretary of State wrote
to the Chair of the DAC to raise the issue of whether these rules should be adjusted
to reflect the scale of the impact in this case.</p><p>This does not impact our response
in the region – the government has committed £57m to date for immediate relief and
we will match every pound donated to the Red Cross [up to £3m].</p>
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