Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to introduce greater financial accountability to the international aid system.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The 2016 Multilateral Development Review demands that agencies meet international aid transparency standards and pass the same expectation to their partners. We are challenging multilaterals to publish all spending over £500, and we are expanding payment by results approaches and performance agreements, to introduce greater financial accountability. These measures will deliver increased value for money for UK taxpayers and better outcomes for the world’s poorest people.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to increase the capacity of developing countries to collect tax.
Answered by Grant Shapps
DFID is engaged in, or developing, tax reform projects in 26 of our 28 priority countries. We have established a specialist Capacity Building Unit in HMRC to provide technical expertise to support these efforts and are working internationally so developing countries have the means to tackle tax avoidance and evasion.