Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the results and recommendations of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index; and is she will make a statement.

The Aid Transparency Index takes place every two years and this is the first review since DFID and FCO merged. FCDO ranked as the 4th highest performing bilateral donor and was classed as "good". We are examining the findings of the review to help improve our rating in future assessments. Transparency helps improve accountability, efficiency and effectiveness and FCDO remains committed to transparency in its official development assistance spend and continues to publish programme information so that parliament and the public can see how we are delivering our aid objectives across the world.

The UK has committed to the further strengthening of aid transparency in the UK's Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, with a specific commitment added when it was updated in August 2022.