The legal framework for UK aid After Brexit

Manji, Ambreena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2536-4137 2019. The legal framework for UK aid After Brexit. Current Legal Problems 72 (1) , pp. 37-57. 10.1093/clp/cuz006

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Abstract

Since 2015, when the UK legislated a target for aid spending, the nature of its spending on official development assistance has changed significantly. Government departments not traditionally associated with spending aid have found themselves in charge of disbursing aid funds as a result of that year’s spending review. The vote to exit the European Union has subsequently introduced a number of uncertainties. What considerations will be at play in UK aid spending after Brexit? What will become of official development assistance currently spent through European mechanisms? In what sort of configuration might the Department for International Development and other government departments find themselves? The focus of this paper is on how the vote to leave the European Union might affect the way the UK spends aid. It asks whether the legal framework for this spending is robust enough to withstand the demands that a new post-Brexit political and economic context will make.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0070-1998
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 July 2019
Date of Acceptance:	1 July 2019
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 01:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124345

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