Today’s Daily Express front page refers to a “‘cover-up’ of how taxpayers’ money is spent”. This claim and other claims made in the article are incorrect and misleading. The suggestion...
The Daily Express has published an article today which claims that “billions of pounds is funnelled abroad with little accountability”. This is simply wrong. The International Development Secretary Priti Patel...
The Daily Express has published an article today with a number of claims about the development budget, including that the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national...
The Daily Express published an article today claiming that 10,000 people have signed their online petition for the government to reduce the foreign aid budget. The newspaper claims that this...
...transforms women’s lives – giving them the choices and control over their futures that women in the UK enjoy today. In July, we announced the UK will rise to the...
Today’s Daily Express front page story (26 October, 2017) reported on claims that the costs of health tourism should be met by the international development budget. In response DFID would...
...follow Britain’s lead and make polio history.” Polio was wiped out in the UK in the 1980s and there are more than 100,000 British survivors today. Globally, the wild poliovirus...
Today, (Saturday, 2 September) the Daily Mail has reported on £1.6 million worth of medication that was not used following the Ebola crisis three years ago. The UK led the...
...announced a £7 million package to tackle modern slavery in Nigeria, which was covered in today’s The Times. Visual news stories, images and comments from the Secretary of State have...
Today (14 August 2017) the Daily Mail has reported on House of Commons Speaker John Bercow’s decision to give the Speaker’s Democracy Award to Pakistani MP Marvi Memon for her...