...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’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...
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...
The Daily Express has published an article today highlighting how the aid budget is spent across government. The piece outlines how the Department for International Development spends three quarters of...
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 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...
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...
...included coverage across BBC News, ITV News, Channel 4 News and Sky News on Thursday 9 November after the appointment was made. It continued today with reports in newspapers including...
...Anna Dubuis/DFID The latest report from Sky News today (Monday 13 November) depicts the harrowing atrocities that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have been unable to escape Burma are...
International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt stands with the Caribbean and Overseas Territories to build back better Over the weekend and today (Monday 20 November 2017), newspapers and online news outlets...