Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to introduce greater financial accountability to the international aid system.

The 2016 Multilateral Development Review sets out ambitious plans to enhance our multilateral partners’ financial accountability. We will demand that our partners meet international aid transparency standards and pass the same expectation to their partners. We are challenging multilaterals to work towards full transparency by publishing all spending over £500, as DFID does, and we are expanding our use of payment by results approaches and performance contracts, to introduce greater accountability. These measures will further improve the effectiveness of the international aid system, deliver better value for money for UK taxpayers and better outcomes for the world’s poorest people.