Tell the Chancellor: we can't afford more cuts

We want to build a world free from hunger. And after working towards that goal for over 40 years, we know it’s possible.

But to address the scale of the hunger crisis, we need the support and leadership of the UK government. That means funding for programmes like ours that cure malnutrition in crises and work to prevent it from ever occurring in the first place.

Yet the UK Government is on the verge of shrinking the overseas assistance and development budget to the lowest it’s been in 17 years. This is unacceptable.

That’s why we’re telling Chancellor Rachel Reeves that her Autumn Budget must protect UK aid.

Will you join us?

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Dear Chancellor,

733 million people around the world are going hungry. A child dies of hunger every 15 seconds. Famine has been declared in parts of Sudan, while hunger crises rage in the DRC, Gaza and Haiti.

Terrible conflicts, climate disasters and the cost-of-living crisis are all driving even more people into hunger. But without urgent action, the spending plans your government has inherited will cut UK overseas assistance to its lowest levels since 2007.

While I know the government faces difficult spending decisions ahead of the Autumn Budget, these are cuts we cannot afford. And they are cuts the world cannot afford.

Without sufficient funding, capacity and dedicated expertise, the hunger crisis will only get worse, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods for generations to come.

Now is not the time for the UK to shirk responsibility, but to show genuine leadership on the international stage. I ask that you:

at an absolute minimum, maintain the UK official development assistance (ODA) budget at 0.58% GNI;

rapidly and significantly reduce the amount of UK ODA being spent within the UK on refugees and asylum seekers, while still ensuring adequate support for this vulnerable group;

urgently set out new plans for how and when the government will return to an ODA budget of 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) by introducing fair and transparent fiscal tests and scale-up UK aid as progress is made towards meeting them.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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