PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Development Aid (17 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will commission a review of the (a) effectiveness of development aid and (b) proportion of such aid that does not reach its intended destination.

Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Reform UK)

This Government is committed to development effectiveness, transparency and scrutiny. Across the FCDO, robust systems and frameworks help ensure we achieve value for money, spend British taxpayers' money well, and that development assistance reaches its intended recipients.

The FCDO's high standards of programme delivery and risk management requires investigating any possible fraud, bribery and corruption, maintaining financial oversight of aid programmes, and formally reviewing aid programmes. The FCDO ensures our delivery partners have robust fraud policies in place and our due diligence assessments cover their ability to manage downstream partners.

The Development Review will propose how to maximise the impact of the FCDO's integrated development and diplomacy model and how we can improve assurance over our delivery of development aid.

Answered by:
Anneliese Dodds (Labour)
25 October 2024