Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the transaction costs incurred by her Department’s reporting requirements for UN humanitarian agencies.

DFID’s reporting and due diligence requirements are necessarily rigorous in order to safeguard vulnerable people and ensure value for money for the UK tax-payer. We expect all DFID partners, including UN agencies, to meet these high standards.

DFID carefully determines reporting requirements to reflect the specific context. DFID does not have data on transaction costs but is undertaking a range of initiatives to streamline and make more consistent our requirements of UN agencies.