
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
by Sarkis Zeronian24 Jul 2015, 5:23 AM PST0

UKIP’s defence spokesman and Commando Engineers veteran Mike Hookem has blasted a suggestion by Conservative defence minister Michael Fallon that the entire foreign aid and defence budgets be merged, calling it “ludicrous”. Answering questions on defence, minister Fallon said the
by Oliver Lane9 Jun 2015, 5:26 AM PST0

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”
by A.B. Sanderson6 Mar 2015, 6:54 AM PST0

A report by the National Audit Office has shown that millions of pounds from the government’s international aid budget was spent on last-minute projects in order to spend the multi-million pound budget. In 2013 the UK provided £11.5 billion in
by A.B. Sanderson16 Jan 2015, 9:28 AM PST0