Foreign aid: UK cuts funding to UN in change of strategy

Key Facts

• Instead, the Foreign Office will spend the aid money on individual projects and countries that are UK priorities.
• But under the new strategy, the Foreign Office will cut the percentage of UK aid spent on multilateral organisations down to just 25% by 2025.
• The Foreign Office said the approach will mean it can "focus funding on UK priorities and control exactly how taxpayers' money is used to support these".
• Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Funding for girls' education in places such as Kenya is being restored after a year of cuts However, the Foreign Office was unable to say how the UK could compete with China's much bigger aid budgets.

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