Cuts to international aid will remain, and there is more news on post-16 education reform
Yesterday afternoon, the eyes and ears of the research world were on the House of Commons, where MPs were debating the cuts to overseas aid before voting on whether to restore the scrapped target of spending 0.7 per cent of national income on official development assistance.
Readers will be aware that the UN has a target for countries to spend this proportion of gross national income on ODA—but that this year, citing the economic impact of the pandemic, the UK government will spend just 0.5 per cent.
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