Petition · past parliament
Repeal the International Development Act 2015.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Provide funding for the Care and Social Services sector by allocating part of the £15 billion Foreign Aid given annually. The first step must be to Repeal the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015.
Care homes and Social Services are a deprived sector of society. It is critically important that significant funds are made available to remedy this injustice.
The UN’s target for 'Foreign Aid' for all developed countries is 0.7% of GNP. Currently for the U.K. this is £14 billion a year.
The Department for International Development (DFID) is charged with allocating the £14. Since there is no way DFID can allocate this amount of money to U.K. driven projects; 40% (£6 billion) is passed to trilateral bodies (e.g. EU, UN) for them to disburse.
This must stop: and with the focus now on our Care Homes, this £6 billion must be allocated to this deprived sector of our society.
The UN’s target for 'Foreign Aid' for all developed countries is 0.7% of GNP. Currently for the U.K. this is £14 billion a year.
The Department for International Development (DFID) is charged with allocating the £14. Since there is no way DFID can allocate this amount of money to U.K. driven projects; 40% (£6 billion) is passed to trilateral bodies (e.g. EU, UN) for them to disburse.
This must stop: and with the focus now on our Care Homes, this £6 billion must be allocated to this deprived sector of our society.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Abolish the mandatory 0.7% GDP Foreign Aid target and spend our money at home: Abolish the mandatory 0.7% GDP Foreign Aid target and spend our money at home
Use money from the foreign aid budget to Support UK in the Covid 19 crisis: Use money from the foreign aid budget to Support UK in the Covid 19 crisis
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https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Abolish the mandatory 0.7% GDP Foreign Aid target and spend our money at home: Abolish the mandatory 0.7% GDP Foreign Aid target and spend our money at home
Use money from the foreign aid budget to Support UK in the Covid 19 crisis: Use money from the foreign aid budget to Support UK in the Covid 19 crisis
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
Timeline
| 6 May 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 27 May 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
27 May 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.