A scathing cross-party report said Britain’s new strategy has ‘significant gaps’, including a ‘lack of clarity’ about how to achieve aims

Maeve Cullinan

Global Health Security Reporter

Maeve Cullinan is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security desk. She covers issues including disease outbreaks, conflict, global development, humanitarian crises, and sexual violence and has reported from Africa and Asia. She was named on the Press 30 under 30 list in 2025.

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Published 28 April 2026 10:02am BST

There is “no money and no plan” guiding the UK’s foreign aid policy under Labour, MPs have warned.

In a scathing report on the future of aid spending, the International Development Committee said on Tuesday that Britain’s new strategy is characterised by “significant gaps”, including a “lack of clarity” about how to achieve stated goals.

The official overseas development assistance budget was reduced from 0.5 to 0.3 per cent of gross national income – a real-term reduction of 40 per cent – in…