Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when he will provide the Government's response to the First Report of the International Development Committee, Racism in the aid sector, HC 150, published on 14 June 2022; and for what reason he is yet to provide the Government response to that report.

I provided a response to the International Development Committee (IDC) on 5 December 2022, together with a letter to the IDC Chair, apologising for the delay. The UK Government is grateful to the IDC for its report on racism in the aid sector. We wanted to provide a comprehensive response to the complex issues raised by the IDC's report. This took time, but it should not have taken as long as it did. The FCDO is committed to providing UK Government responses within 8 weeks, and the Foreign Secretary has asked officials to ensure that a delay of this kind does not recur.