 • Labour has reversed the Tory decline in aid spending. Since 1997, we’ve increased the aid budget by 93% and it’s set to total £4.6 billion or 0.4% of
GDP by 2005/6, well above the OECD average of 0.22% of national income spent by other nations.
• Since 1997 we’ve led the international effort to reduce the debt burden of the world’s poorest, most indebted countries, with the UK providing 100% debt relief for those
countries committed to using the proceeds to benefit the poor.
• We ended the Tory policy of tying UK aid to trade – including the arms trade - so that developing countries can use aid resources to purchase goods and services from the most cost
effective sources. 
• Together with the other G7 nations, we’ve agreed a package of $100 billion of debt relief to assist 41 of the most heavily indebted poor countries.
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