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Responding to Jeremy Hunt’s answer that foreign aid will remain at 0.5 per cent during a hearing of the Treasury select committee, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
“Taxpayers will welcome this healthy dose of common sense from the chancellor.
“His promise to get spending under control would not be credible if he wasn’t even able to control foreign aid spending.
“Ministers should consider scrapping the 0.7 per cent target altogether and focus aid spending on responding to genuine humanitarian emergencies.”
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