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.
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 has finally issued a response to the rapidly growing official petition against the United Nations Global Compact for Migration.
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.
Despite the government promising to stop giving hand-outs to the wealthy nation, more than £47 million of UK taxpayer cash was handed to China in 2016.
A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.
Aid workers sent to conflict zones representing the United Nations and international charities routinely sexually assault the very people they are sent to help, a former aid worker has claimed.
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
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.
Foreign aid has been granted to countries with space programmes, like India and China, and on academic projects including studying the Tibetan verb and producing ‘cross-cultural’ art films in South Africa.
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.
The National Audit Office has said the private investment arm of the UK’s foreign aid department cannot prove its work makes a lasting difference to people’s lives.
The government’s Justice and International Development departments are considering pooling their resources in an attempt to deport more foreign criminals from Britain than ever before. Justice Secretary Liz Truss and International Development Secretary Priti Patel are said to have discussed
A leader of the Black Lives Matter UK movement, which last week shut down London City Airport and caused disruption across the country over the summer, is funded by British taxpayers through the UK foreign aid budget.
Britain overspent its foreign aid budget by nearly £200 million in 2015, contributing to a massive £513 million rise in foreign aid following the government’s decision to set a controversial new target. Overseas aid spending has now risen to an all
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
MPs have uncovered massive waste in the EU’s aid spending programmes, to which the UK is a major contributor. Thanks to a culture within the European Commission which deems a project a success only when the full budget has been