UK government facing mounting criticism over aid budget cuts
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UK government facing mounting criticism over aid budget cuts
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Former minister claims Dominic Raab plans to cut foreign aid for girls education by 40%
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Lady Sugg, a former Foreign Office minister, has challenged her onetime boss Dominic Raab to admit he is cutting the UK aid budget for girlsâ education by more than 40% as the foreign secretary also suggested UK bilateral aid to Africa would be reduced to a third of what it was two years ago.
She also claimed the government was planning to close its flagship Womenâs Integrated Sexual Health programme and impose cuts of about 70-80% to spending on the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.
The news came on the day the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke to the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, about a girlsâ education fundraising summit they are jointly hosting in July.