'The UK is spending taxpayer's money on foreign “aid” to help coconuts grow in the Caribbean, fund yoga lessons in India and juggling lessons in Africa, it has been revealed.
Due to legislation introduced by former Prime Minister David Cameron, 0.7 per cent of UK economic output must be spent on aid.
Of the £13.4billion aid total in 2016, £1.5billion went to Brussels to support European Commission aid programmes.
The EU used the cash to help fund juggling and trapeze lessons in Tanzania and £120,000 went on improving coconut farming in the Caribbean.
John O’Donnell of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “The aid budget needs a serious overhaul so it’s based on helping those actually in need.”
Some £93million went to India despite the country launching its own space programme.
The Department for International Development (DFiD) spent £86,616 of cash for ‘yoga-based cardiac rehabilitation’ in India.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “Spending money to teach yoga in India is like spending money to teach Catholicism to the Holy Father.”'
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