UK lobbying for more defence and security spending to be classed as aid may be aimed at making up gaps in budgets,NGOs warnThe British government is lobbying to change the definition of abroad development aid (ODA) to include more forms of defence and security spending, prompting concerns that the UK aid programme could be used to plug holes in the budgets of other government departments.
Officials from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and which decides what types of spending can count as aid,and the Department for International Development (DfID) have confirmed that the UK is working with other countries to derive the definition adjusted, but a full list of the changes being sought has not been released.
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Source: theguardian.com