Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the performance of the UK Aid Transparency Guarantee.

Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index 2014 rated DFID’s transparency as “very good”, and ranked DFID as the best performing bilateral development organisation on transparency. It also recognised DFID’s leadership role encouraging others in the international development system to be more transparent. A pilot assessment in April 2014 published by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation also rated DFID as having made the most progress in implementing the aid transparency commitments agreed by donors at the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2011. DFID has launched the Development Tracker website which enables anyone to scrutinise project documents, budgets, supplier contracts and transactions.