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Budget 2010: UK holds its nerve

1 July 2010

The new UK budget confirmed the previous government's spending plans for the Department for International Development. DFID's budget for 2010/11 remains at over £7 billion.

In a joint letter to the Guardian, heads of some of the UK's biggest charities welcomed the fact that Britain had "held its nerve" in "honouring commitments to the world's poorest people" in difficult times.

On behalf of ActionAid UK, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Save the Children, they added that it was important that the UK gets "its wealthy peers, France, Italy and other members of the G8 meeting this weekend in Canada, to do likewise, and not abandon the world's poorest at their time of greatest need."

Aid spending plans for the next financial year will be announced in the Spending Review on 20 October.

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