Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 29961
Foreign Aid: Parliamentary Scrutiny
Tabled: 7 February 2025
Answered: 21 February 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to ensure that every line of foreign aid spending must be approved by Parliament.
Answer
Anneliese DoddsAll government spending is approved by Parliament in the Budget. There are no plans to introduce new legislation for ODA spending.To support effective programme delivery, the publicly available FCDO Programme Operating Framework sets out the mandatory rul...
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