Development Aid: Disclosure of Information

(asked on 30th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to his oral contribution of 26 November 2020, Official Report column 1020, that he will strengthen accountability and value for money, what steps he is taking to ensure that official development assistance is spent only through Government Departments achieving a (a) good and (b) very good on the Aid Transparency Index.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 3rd December 2020

The UK Government recognises that transparency can help deliver better value for money, and we will continue to be accountable to Parliament and to taxpayers for how we spend UK aid. To support this, following the Chancellor's statement announcing the outcome of the Spending Review, the Foreign Secretary announced he will run a cross-government review to agree Official Development Assistance allocations across Whitehall, by the end of the calendar year, to ensure a coherent approach. Alongside this, the HMG Transparency Community of Practice has established a good exchange of learning between aid-spending departments to improve aid transparency and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will continue to build on this. FCDO is committed to improving transparency of aid globally and maintaining our high standards for overseas spending and will continue to promote this across HMG.

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