Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the letter of 13 June 2023 from the Minister for Development and Africa to the Chair of the International Development Committee on the provisional statistics on international development for 2022, on what date the HMG Transparency Community of Practice last met; and how many officials, at which grades, attended that meeting.

The HMG Transparency Community of Practice last met on Thursday 29 June, 2023. 24 officials attended the meeting, joining from multiple Official Development Assistance-spending Whitehall departments. Attendees were from the delegated grades. The FCDO does not collate data of the specific grades of individual officials attending the meeting, but attendance is focused on key policy and technical leads for publication to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard within each department.