UK 'spending more of its aid budget at home than abroad' in developing countries

A large proportion of the pot - some £3bn - is being spent on housing refugees, mainly from Ukraine, according to the Centre for Global Development (CGD). The UK is now spending more of its aid budget at home than in poorer countries, development experts have said. That is because a large proportion of the pot - some £3bn - is being spent on housing refugees, mainly from Ukraine, according to the Centre for Global Development (CGD). The UK aid budget is around £11bn, with some £4bn going to multilateral institutions including the World Bank. Of the remaining £7bn, which is administered by the UK directly, more than half will be spent domestically this year, including some £3bn on housing refugees, according to CGD's analysis. While the UK is allowed to count refugee-hosting costs as official development assistance (ODA) under internationally agreed rules, it is one of only a few countries - and the only one in the G7 - to fund all the costs of Ukrainian refugees from its existing aid b