Asked by: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative - North East Somerset)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the joint value for money guidance for UK Official Development Assistance agreed with HM Treasury to complement Managing Public Money.
Answered by Rory Stewart
UK Official Development Assistance value for money guidance is a routine internal Her Majesty’s Government document which signposts Official Development Assistance spending departments to a range of other sets of guidance in the public domain. These include the UK Aid Strategy, Managing Public Money, HM Treasury’s Green and Magenta Books, Cabinet Office Public Procurement Policy Guidance and Commercial Operating Standards, DFID Smart Rules, Overseas Security and Justice Assistance guidance, Aid Transparency Index indicators, Consolidated Budgeting Guidelines, Government Reporting Manual and The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / Development Assistance Committee directives.
Asked by: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative - North East Somerset)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's preparations for the UK leaving the EU with (a) an agreement on future partnership and (b) no agreement with the EU; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Following the referendum in June 2016, the Department for International Development continues to make rigorous preparations for a range of possible outcomes from the UK's negotiations with the EU.