britain's aid budget may have to soar by hundreds of millions of pounds a year because of new eu rules, it has emerged despite the fact that the uk has now met the controversial target to spend 07 per cent of national income on overseas aid, changes to brussels accounting rules could bump up the bill even more official figures released this week reveal that britain met the target last year, spending £117billion on foreign aid projects the uk is now the second largest aid donor in the world spending on foreign aid is set to increase by an extra £1billion over the next two years because of new eu rules  but new eu accounting rules – to which britain has signed up – are being brought in which change the way national income is measured the new total includes estimates of parts of the black economy such as prostitution and drug running it means that gross national income will rise – pushing up the amount that will need to be spent on aid to meet the 07 per cent target one aid expert said it could mean an increase of £500million in the aid budget in 2016 and 2017 the news that britain’s overseas contributions will swell even further was unpopular with tory backbenchers, many of whom believe it was wrong to spend so much when the defence budget faces cuts sir gerald howarth, a former tory defence minister, said: ‘what is the point of this arbitrary figure of spending 07 per cent of gdp? ‘the idea that if we spend this amount all the world’s problems will end is absurd, or that by providing that magic figure we suddenly become paragons of virtue ‘if a change in the formula means the british taxpayer has to contribute yet more in overseas aid  a lot of people will start questioning the largesse of this country there are many military figures who just don’t see the logic of putting money into aid instead of defence’ the new accounting rules are being phased in and the department for international development said they would only apply from 2016 britain met the 07 per cent aid target thanks to a frantic effort that meant increasing the budget by 30 per cent in one year a highly critical commons report found that ministers had splurged large amounts in the final months – with few checks – just so they could say they had met the target and last november an independent report slammed dfid for a failure to tackle corruption in developing countries late last year, the change to eu accountancy rules landed britain with a huge £17billion increase in contributions to brussels nigel farage (left) has called for the foreign aid budget to be cut by up to £10billion  millions of pounds of british aid money could be sent to war torn eritrea – despite warnings it will be misused by the brutal regime diplomatic sources say the european commission is drawing up plans for a potential £240million aid package to help stem the tide of asylum seekers heading for the eu the move would mean a six fold increase in the level of eu aid to the african state, with britain’s share amounting to around £31million campaigners say eritrea has one of the worst human rights records in the world, with thousands of political activists locked up and tortured and citizens forced to do military service into their seventies the move will also raise concerns about the lack of accountability attached to the £11billion britain hands to the eu to disperse each year more than 20 campaign groups and academics have signed an open letter calling for a halt to the aid package until eritrea agrees to comply with a un inquiry they say the eu may be acting illegally by handing money to the country, which has been ruled by dictator isaias afewerki since 1993
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