<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 7 March 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 1:43, 7 March 2017

Of course there is a humanitarian case for aid and nobody is against that, but a lot of our aid budget actually goes to countries that are spending a huge amount of money upon projects that we wouldn’t regard for a moment as humanitarian. For example, we’re increasing our aid to Pakistan this year by £100 million to nearly £450 million a year. Pakistan, this year, is increasing its defence budget by £635 million to £6.7 billion. They spend far more per capita on defence than we do in the United Kingdom. They’ve also got a nuclear programme and a space programme. So, what we’re in effect doing by increasing the amount of aid that we’re giving to Pakistan is indirectly funding their military, space and nuclear budgets.