Financial Assistance to Ukraine Act 2025

Commons bill Government Bill 2025-26 Act of Parliament

Passed β€” Royal Assent 16 January 2025
Sponsor
Darren Jones (Labour)
Introduced
6 November 2024
Royal Assent
16 January 2025
About this bill

A Bill to make provision for loans or other financial assistance to be provided to, or for the benefit of, the government of Ukraine.

Parliamentary stages

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Commons
βœ“ First reading 6 Nov 2024
βœ“ Second reading 20 Nov 2024β†—
βœ“ Programme motion 20 Nov 2024
βœ“ Money resolution 20 Nov 2024
βœ“ Committee of the Whole House 18 Dec 2024β†—
βœ“ Third reading 18 Dec 2024β†—
Lords
βœ“ First reading 19 Dec 2024
βœ“ Second reading 15 Jan 2025β†—
βœ“ Committee Negatived 15 Jan 2025β†—
βœ“ Third reading 15 Jan 2025β†—
Final stages
βœ“ Royal Assent 16 Jan 2025

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What this bill is about

From the Explanatory Notes (December 2024):

1 The Financial Assistance to Ukraine Bill will provide the Government with spending authority to enable the UK to provide Ukraine with financial assistance as part of the G7 β€˜Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA)’ Loans to Ukraine scheme. Through this scheme the G7 collectively will provide Ukraine with an advance of approximately USD $50bn, repaid from the extraordinary profits made on immobilised Russian sovereign assets (RSAs) held in the EU. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on 22 October 2024 that the UK would contribute Β£2.26bn ($3bn) to the proposal. 1 1 Announced at the G7…
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