Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which UN and other multilateral aid and development agencies are affected by corruption.

The UK expects all multilateral organisations to have a zero tolerance approach to fraud and corruption; acting immediately if it is found, working with authorities to bring perpetrators to account and pursuing aggressive loss recovery approaches. The Multilateral Development Review confirmed that of the multilateral agencies that DFID funds, the systems in place to prevent, detect and combat fraud range in their quality. The multilateral development banks included in the report have some of the best developed systems to prevent fraud.