Claim: Over half of the foreign aid budget is spent in the UK.
Fact-check: Telegraph headline misrepresents estimate of foreign aid spent within UK - Full Fact
Verdict: this is misleading. it is based on a think tank estimate that the amount of uk foreign aid spent in the uk itself accounted for half of bilateral aid spending in 2023. this would equate to around a third of total uk foreign aid spending.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Hannah Smith
Date published: 2024-04-12T00:00:00