Department for International Development Archives

Department for International Development

UK government’s funding spree for overseas abortions continues apace

April 26, 2024

The UK Government has announced that £12million pounds of taxpayers’ money is to go to a programme run by an organisation that aims to “expand access” to abortion in Tanzania over the next two years. It comes against a backdrop in which funding for overseas abortions has been a continued theme of the UK Government

At last people are starting to realise that foreign aid achieves very little

March 29, 2011

Often aid gives power and patronage to corrupt regimes that are the cause of poverty themselves

The Government, says Cardinal O’Brien, has an ‘anti-Christian foreign policy’. Good for him: so it does

March 16, 2011

Why are we giving hundreds of millions to brutal regimes like Pakistan and northern Sudan?

Our Government will be funding the work in China of the world’s largest abortion provider

October 25, 2010

Is that really what you want your taxes to be spent on?

Bishops regret proposal to tie abortion into overseas aid

October 22, 2010

Bishops criticise Government proposals to 'hard-wire' abortion and contraceptive services into overseas development programmes