MPs and peers demand government reverses ‘disastrous’ water and sanitation aid cuts
- Date: 05-May-2021
- Source: The Telegraph
- Sector:Economy
- Country:Middle East
MPs and peers demand government reverses ‘disastrous’ water and sanitation aid cuts
An influential group of cross-party MPs and peers has demanded that the government overturn plans to slash aid spending on water and sanitation by 80 per cent.
The proposal, revealed in a leaked memo seen by the Telegraph last week, will see spending cut from £176 million in 2019 to less than £35.2m this year. The reduction is part of swingeing cuts to the UK’s aid budget as it is slashed from 0.7 per cent of gross national income to 0.5 per cent – a cut of around £5billion – as a result of the hit to the economy caused by the pandemic.
Signatories to the letter include Caroline Nokes, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North and a former immigration minister; Pauline Latham, Conservative MP for Mid Derbyshire; and Baroness Sugg, a former minister for global development who resigned when the cuts were first unveiled last November.
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