As a middle income country without large numbers of people living on less than a dollar a day/the Maldives does not receive development aid directly from the UK. The UK does however support the Maldives indirectly through our contribution to multilateral partners such as the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank including with climate change funds.Secretary of State recently wrote to UK Trade and Investment encouraging them to do more to help the Maldivian Government as a Commonwealth country working hard to make democracy function after decades of dictatorship.