We have heard many recipients of UK aid concerned about its impact on them. What we haven’t heard is what the UK is actually spending taxpayers’ money on.
In 1970, Britain pledged to spend at least 0.7% of GNI on foreign aid as part of a United Nations pact. In 2020, the Conservative government reduced overseas aid from 0.7% to 0.5% of GNI to free up cash for domestic spending during covid.
According to The Conversation, 34% of Britain’s foreign aid consists of contributions to multilateral organisations like the United Nations and World Bank. A research briefing published by the UK parliament in February 2025 gave a little more detail:
Current pressures include spending on refugees in the UK and international climate finance commitments that the Conservative Government planned for 2024/25 and 2025/26. Several multilateral organisations, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), Gavi, the vaccine alliance, and the International Development Association (IDA, part of the World Bank) have also launched requests for funding replenishments to cover their work from 2025. The Labour Government says it will provide £1.98 billion to the IDA over the next three years and £310 million to the WHO for 2024 to 2028. Ongoing pressures on the overseas aid budget, UK aid: spending reductions since 2020 and outlook from 2024/25, UK Parliament, 12 February 2025
The International Climate Finance (“ICF”) commitments noted above refer to the “promised contributions to the UNFCCC commitment to jointly mobilise US$100 billion climate finance a year for developing countries.” The UNFCCC is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
As we note payments being made to the IDA (World Bank), the UN and climate commitments, we should recall that the World Bank, for example, are not transparent and not acting with integrity regarding the money they are given. We previously noted that the majority of 2,500 “climate mitigation” projects funded by the World Bank have little to do with climate. And towards the end of last year, scrutiny of the World Bank intensified over $24 billion in unaccounted climate funds.
Obviously, if the UK were to leave the criminal World Health Organisation and the United Nations, huge savings could be made. Not only on contributions to these organisations but also payments made to spread and capitalise on the UN’s nefarious “climate change” agenda.
One of the other big savings that could be had is to defund Bill Gates’ GAVI.
In October 2024, the BBC reported that Bill Gates joined a chorus of international development voices criticising the Government for cutting billions in overseas aid spending in the Budget. It’s not surprising considering how much GAVI milks the UK taxpayer....<<<Read More>>>...
