Foreign Aid

Almost 200 charities accuse Government of turning their backs on the world’s poor by axing DfID 

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Almost 200 charities have accused ministers of turning their backs on the world’s poorest by scrapping the office that dishes out foreign aid. They say the merger of the Department for International Development with the Foreign Office is an ‘unnecessary and expensive distraction’ that will diminish the UK’s reputation. A total of 188 humanitarian aid … Read more

Boris Johnson scraps standalone foreign aid department to ‘maximise British influence’ abroad

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Boris Johnson announced the government department responsible for foreign aid is to be scrapped in a dramatic overhaul of the way Britain operates overseas. The department for International Development (Dfid) will be merged into the Foreign Office to create the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in a bid to ‘maximise British influence’ overseas, he told … Read more

Foreign aid farce: We send more money to rich countries than world’s poorest nations 

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Foreign aid farce: We send more money to rich countries such as China and India than we hand out to the world’s poorest nations MPs have revealed how much of Britain’s foreign aid budget is being spent  There are concerns it is going to China and India rather than poorer nations   Proportion to ‘middle income’ … Read more

Britain’s £4.2bn foreign gender equality budget must be managed better, says National Audit Office

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Fury over £4.2billion feminist foreign aid as spending watchdog warns overseas projects that receive financial gifts are not being properly assessed National Audit Office praises ‘ambitious’ plan to improve global gender equality But it tells foreign aid bosses to improve how it will deliver the £4.2bn scheme  Britain has previously spent millions on a Spice … Read more

Inquiry begins into whether £14.6bn UK spends every year on foreign aid is effective use of money 

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Inquiry begins into whether £14.6bn UK spends every year on foreign aid is effective use of money MPs are to investigate effectiveness of the foreign aid billions spent by Britain  International Development Committee to consider if aid makes lasting impact  Mosque in Egypt was rebuilt using British aid, Daily Mail revealed last month By John … Read more

MPs will hold emergency debate over ‘jihadi textbooks’ handed out at schools in Palestine

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MPs will hold emergency debate over ‘jihadi textbooks’ handed out at schools in Palestine and paid for by £120m of UK taxpayers’ cash Reading exercises for six-year-olds funded by UK aid includes the word ‘martyr’  Nine-year-olds study maths by adding the martyrs in Palestinian uprisings About £120 million of UK funding has gone where the … Read more

Jihadi textbooks in schools funded by £100 million of OUR cash as foreign aid

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Ministers pledged urgent action last night after it emerged that British foreign aid cash is funding schools where textbooks on martyrdom and radical Islamism are used. The Daily Mail has discovered that tens of millions of pounds of UK foreign aid is helping fund schools in Gaza and the West Bank that use such material … Read more