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 Dodds
All 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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