The Government is believed to be looking at a switch of aid funding from the North and Scotland to give the South a boost.

It would be unfortunate if Congress decreased aid funding.

Liverpool - one of the poorest cities in country - is going to have legal aid funding cut by almost £2m.

In July, the United States suspended direct aid funding.

Later that year, the US cut about $50 million in aid funding, desperate not to allow any of its funds to get into al-Shabaab's hands.

The Democrat-controlled Senate, meanwhile, is seeking to restore foreign aid funding closer to 2010 levels, with a proposed budget for 2012 of $54bn.

The data includes how legal aid funding is spent, and what experts get paid presently.

Financial aid funding is provided by the National Science Foundation.

Are delays in aid funding inevitable?