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Overseas Aid

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 906326, tabled on 8 September 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure value for money in its aid budget.

Answered on

14 September 2016

My predecessors in Government have made huge progress in improving British aid by creating an independent aid watchdog, introducing much tougher value-for-money controls and making DFID’s spending even more transparent.

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