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Written Question
Overseas Aid: Cost Effectiveness
Wednesday 23rd May 2018

Asked by: Gordon Henderson (Conservative - Sittingbourne and Sheppey)

Question to the Department for International Development:

What steps she is taking to promote value for money in aid spending.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

It is vital that aid spending delivers value for money. I have set a challenge that we ensure aid money is not just spent well, but cannot be spent better.

Written Question
Palestinians: Overseas Aid
Tuesday 29th November 2016

Asked by: Gordon Henderson (Conservative - Sittingbourne and Sheppey)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which independent auditor vets UK aid to the Palestinian Territories; and whether that auditor is regulated by any UK regulator.

Answered by Rory Stewart

All organisations which receive funding from DFID are required to provide independently audited financial statements. The United Nations Board of Auditors provides independent external audit services for UN programmes while competitive bidding processes are conducted to appoint auditors for other programmes.

Recent audits of DFID’s programmes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) have been conducted by Talal Abu Ghazaleh & Co, El Wafa and Price Waterhouse Cooper. Price Waterhouse Cooper is regulated by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council.

Talal Abu Ghazaleh & Co and El Wafa are based in Jordan and the OPTs respectively, and are therefore not regulated by any British regulator. The National Audit Office, the principal state audit body in the United Kingdom, also provides independent external audit of DFID’s spending in the OPTs.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What processes are in place to ensure that non-governmental organisations in the Palestinian Authority that are funded by the UK, the EU and the UN do not promote incitement of hate...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Mar 2013
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"I welcome the Minister’s answer, but in East Jerusalem last year a UN-funded Palestinian NGO performed a puppet show promoting non-smoking. This well-intentioned educational message was corrupted somewhat when the children were urged to replace cigarettes with machine guns. Will the Minister assure me that no British financial aid donations, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Mar 2012
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"T2. What is my right hon. Friend doing to ensure that British funds provided to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency are not abused in a way that undermines the middle east peace process?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2010
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"Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister take this opportunity to assure my constituents in Sittingbourne and Sheppey that planning circular 01/06 will be scrapped in the near future, and that Travelling communities will then be treated in the same way as settled communities with regard to planning law?..."
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