London: Following a "terrible hit" over the past three years, the UK will increase its bilateral foreign aid in 2024–25, Minister for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell told The Guardian on Monday.

According to Mitchell, the overall aid budget will rise from £7.4 billion ($9.68 billion) this fiscal year to £8.3 billion the following year. This budget includes both multilateral and bilateral aid. In 2022–2023, it was £6.9 billion.

Official estimates from the Foreign Office predict that bilateral aid to low-income nations will rise sharply in 2024–25, while aid to Africa as a whole will rise from £646 million this fiscal year to £1.36 billion the following. Mitchell continued by saying he would allocate £1 billion for humanitarian aid.

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Following a "terrible hit" over the past three years, the UK will increase its bilateral foreign aid in 2024–25, Minister for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell told The Guardian on Monday.

According to Mitchell, the overall aid budget will rise from £7.4 billion ($9.68 billion) this fiscal year to £8.3 billion the following year. This budget includes both multilateral and bilateral aid. In 2022–2023, it was £6.9 billion.

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Official estimates from the Foreign Office predict that bilateral aid to low-income nations will rise sharply in 2024–25, while aid to Africa as a whole will rise from £646 million this fiscal year to £1.36 billion the following. Mitchell continued by saying he would allocate £1 billion for humanitarian aid.

According to The Guardian, the UK plans to increase its funding for Somalia from £90 million to £138 million, Ethiopia from £89 million to £214 million, and South Sudan from £47.9 million to £111 million.

According to Mitchell, he intends to release a white paper in the fall to win support from all political parties and refocus British thinking on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals. 

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He expressed hope that it would lessen the outrage that some nations were feeling due to the amount of money that the West was sending to Ukraine.

"They see the wealthy world spending money on humanitarian needs in Ukraine when children are dying in the Horn of Africa, and they resent that," he said in an interview with The Guardian.