Foreign Secretary David Miliband has admitted he was wrong to claim British aid to India would stop by 2011 because it was becoming a "richer country".

In fact the Government had "no plans" to end the aid, which reflected India's "continuing levels of poverty".

Spending on aid in a country where more than 450 million people lived on less than a pound a day would hit £280m in 2010-11, he added.