PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Overseas Aid (9 October 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what checks his Department carries out on non-governmental organisations and charities before allocating them funding to ensure that they do not have discriminatory policies against individual countries or states.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office conducts due diligence checks, for example background checks, on non-governmental organisations and charities before any offer of funding is made. However, the checks vary depending on the size, nature and operating environment of the proposed work.

Answered by:
Sir David Lidington (Conservative)
19 October 2015