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4th Special Report – The Government’s efforts to achieve SDG2: Zero Hunger: Government Response

Published 22 May 2025

International Development Committee The UK Government’s work on achieving SDG2: Zero Hunger Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to 3rd Report - The Government’s efforts to achieve SDG2: Zero Hunger.

This is the government's response, published 22 May 2025.

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

The Government's response to the Committee's report on SDG2 mostly 'partially' agrees with its recommendations, disagrees with reconsidering the cut in ODA, and ties many decisions to the ongoing Spending Review.

  • On the reduction in ODA from 0.5% to 0.3% of GNI, the Government says it "disagree[s] with this recommendation", calling the decision "a necessary one", and remains committed to returning to 0.7% "when fiscal circumstances allow".
  • It does not think separate assessments of climate finance or of the impact on smallholder farmers are appropriate or warranted "at this stage", but "will consider the case for further impact assessment in 2026", depending on the Spending Review outcome.
  • On the Child Nutrition Fund pledge, the Government says it is "not in a position to agree or disagree" and will set out spending plans after the Spending Review.
  • It agrees on staffing, saying it "hope[s] to recruit new Food and Agriculture advisory expertise to fill critical gaps in 2025/2026", and has paused the Disability Inclusion and Rights Strategy refresh, to consider "options for updating it" after the Spending Review.

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