Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the department tasked with handing out foreign aid will be dissolved and brought under the umbrella of the Foreign Office, creating what he termed a “super department”. However, there will ultimately be no significant cuts in the amount of money spent in other countries.
A former Secretary of State for International Development has revealed that at least five suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrators are living openly in Britain, with four of them living on taxpayer-funded state benefits.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to grant peerages to Tory Brexiteers in order to rebalance the remainer-dominated House of Lords, according to a report.
The British government is giving away more money through the foreign aid budget than it is spending on Britain’s police forces, despite the violent crime wave gripping the country.
The British government has finally issued a response to the rapidly growing official petition against the United Nations Global Compact for Migration.
Millions of pounds’ worth of British international aid is being appropriated for organised criminals by corrupt foreign officials, according to reports.
An aid watchdog has slammed the government for exaggerating the number of women’s lives it saved with taxpayer’s money spent on its maternal health initiatives.
A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.
The British government has cut off funding to Oxfam following the aid worker sex scandal, until the charity can show it has made significant reforms. International Development secretary Penny Mordaunt said Oxfam is barred from receiving public money until the
Theresa May’s government is sticking by its massive foreign aid commitments despite funding crises in the Armed Forces, healthcare, and social care, and tens of thousands signing petitions to scrap it.
The British Government’s spending on foreign aid is more than double the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average, thanks to legislation passed under David Cameron.
Home Office contributions to Britain’s foreign aid budget totalling £362 million a year are mostly spent on illegal migrants and asylum seekers in the UK.
The British government has handed around £4 million in foreign aid to the brutal Communist regime in North Korea since the Tories came to power in 2010, and, despite Kim Jong-un threatening “all-out war”, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it has “no plans” to terminate payments.
Government spending on foreign aid is set to overtake spending on the Wales department, figures show.
Unethical behaviour is “absolutely embedded” in the culture of the foreign aid industry, which is overcharging the taxpayer, MPs said Monday night.
Reuters — One of Britain’s leading aid contractors pressured beneficiaries to write favourable testimonies while it was under investigation, a government report found on Sunday, amid growing scrutiny over UK aid spending. Britain last year launched an inquiry into the
The number of fraud allegations involving the United Kingdom’s £12 billion foreign aid budget quadrupled over the last five years, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.
Britain says it has ended millions of dollars in funding for an Ethiopian girl band, amid growing criticism at home of overseas aid. Yegna, sometimes called “Ethiopia’s Spice Girls,” addresses women’s issues in the East African country.
A requirement to spend 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Income (GDI) on foreign aid means the United Kingdom is now dumping billions of pounds as the Department for International Development (DfID) scrambles to meet the target.
In a last-minute rush to hit Prime Minister David Cameron’s foreign aid target, the Department for International Development (DfID) threw over half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money at a controversial Swiss-based fund. Critics say the gift to the celebrity-backed Global Fund to
As much as a quarter of Britain’s £11.7 billion aid budget is squandered on unworkable projects and private contractors, the Mail on Sunday has found. The scale of wasteful spending with private companies is such that one charity has dubbed
Politicians need to come clean and admit that they are still vastly overspending taxpayers’ money, the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has said. The economic think tank has drawn up a blueprint of savings which will enable government to achieve its own
An independent body which scrutinises the UK’s international aid payments has concluded that they are ‘a waste of money’. The report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) criticised the Department for International Development’s “weak management” and “poor supervision”