Committee Chair comments on new fraud in UK aid spending report
26 March 2024
International Development Committee Chair comments on the publication of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) latest review, on fraud in UK aid spending.
Chair's comment
International Development Committee Chair, Sarah Champion MP, said:
"The FCDO has a duty to ensure that UK aid spending is protected from fraud and corruption and goes towards tackling poverty. This ICAI report shows that it is not doing enough.
“Sadly, as with so much of the UK's aid programme, it seems that fraud detection and oversight have been diminished by cuts to ODA and the merger of DFID and the FCO.
“The Government needs to invest properly in its anti-fraud capability to ensure our aid budget—already much reduced in recent years—is not being diverted away from people who need it.”
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