6th Special Report - The FCDO's approach to displaced people: Government response

This is the government's response, published 4 December 2025.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government agrees with some recommendations, including a literature review on displacement drivers and solutions, disagrees with others such as appointing a Special Envoy for Displacement, and states it intends to return to 0.7% of GNI on ODA "when fiscal circumstances allow".

• On the recommended holistic review of displacement, the government answers "Agree" but commits only to commission "a literature review of the current evidence", covering drivers and solutions, which it "will share with the Committee".
• It disagrees with appointing a Special Envoy for Displacement, saying it has "no current plans" to do so and that a dedicated Forced Displacement Team coordinates its approach.
• On funding, it does not accept that changes in Sudan peacebuilding funding contributed to escalation, and disagrees with reconsidering or ringfencing women and girls programming, citing the published Equalities Impact Assessment.
• It plans to publish indicative ODA allocations for the next three years "in the coming months", and says it "will explore" whether data disaggregated by displacement status can be recorded in a future programme management system.

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