Foreign aid will top £14bn a year

BRITAIN’S foreign aid budget will soar by £230million next year, taking it above £14billion for the first time.

The UK is committed to spend 0.7 per cent of its national income on aid.

Britain is one of only seven countries in the world to meet the target.

The foreign aid budget soared by £555million to a record £13.9billion last year. Our aid budget has more than doubled from the £6.4billion spent in 2008 and more than quadrupled from the £3.3billion doled out in 2002.