Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is his policy that the new Conflict, Stability and Security Fund implement the report of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact on the Conflict Pool, published in July 2012.

We welcomed the 2012 Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) report into the Conflict Pool (CP), which made a number of recommendations to improve its governance. ICAI’s recommendations have been factored into the design phase of the new Fund. As the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund will operate under a different governance structure from the CP, not all of the recommendations ICAI have made for the CP will be relevant to the Fund.