Extract from Estimates day debate on Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Official Development Assistance - July 9
Friday, 10 July 2020 08:17
Sarah Champion (Rotherham) (Lab):...I would like to start by
speaking the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing,
Southall (Mr Sharma), who is a member of the IDC. He said: “As a
boy growing up in India I saw the crushing weight that
poverty exerts on people. I saw the lives blighted by ill health
and by lack of education.” Fundamentally, that is what DFID does:
it raises people up. Those same children, were they born today,
wherever it may be—in Pakistan, Ethiopia or...Request free trial
(Rotherham) (Lab):...I would
like to start by speaking the words of my hon. Friend the Member
for Ealing, Southall (Mr Sharma), who is a member of the IDC. He
said: “As a boy growing up in India I saw the
crushing weight that poverty exerts on people. I saw the lives
blighted by ill health and by lack of education.” Fundamentally,
that is what DFID does: it raises people up. Those same children,
were they born today, wherever it may be—in Pakistan, Ethiopia or
Nigeria—could expect a different course...
...Although DFID remains the largest distributor of UK aid,
at 73%, its share of spend has been decreasing over recent years.
Non-DFID aid has a very different geographical profile, with around
three quarters of it going to middle-income countries, including
China, India and South Africa. The
shift to increasing amounts of ODA being administered outside DFID
has created significant challenges for the management and oversight
of spending. Not all ODA programmes administered outside DFID are
adequately targeted towards poverty reduction. Seven of the 10 UK
Government Departments assessed, including the Foreign Office, were
failing to meet aid transparency targets. DFID, however, has been
rated very good for seven consecutive years...
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