Alok Sharma becomes International Development Secretary
Last week (Wednesday 24 July) Alok Sharma MP was appointed Secretary of State for International Development and welcomed his new Ministerial team to DFID. On his arrival, Mr Sharma said:...
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Tackling plastic pollution in the world’s oceans
There are reports in the news today on how the UK’s international development budget could be used to tackle plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. This comes as a scientific...
Media coverage of Penny Mordaunt’s five pledges for UK aid
...well – it cannot be better spent. Penny Mordaunt’s five pledges, outlined in an op-ed in the Telegraph yesterday, will see DFID: create a bold new Brexit-ready proposition to boost...
UK response to Hurricane Maria: 20 September 2017
...fortnight. Families have lost their homes, lives have been ripped apart, and the victims of Hurricane Irma are now facing the new threat of Hurricane Maria. But they should know,...
UK Aid Commitments: 26 October 2017
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...value for money. During my time at the Department for International Development, I have acted ruthlessly to clamp down on misspending. I closed down the programme, involving the Ethiopian band...
Modernising international aid rules
...and Caicos are all previous recipients of ODA. The DAC has also agreed to work to create a new mechanism to re-admit countries that had graduated from being eligible for...
Ensuring accountability of the development budget
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...how it works with suppliers to ensure we are getting the very best deal for the taxpayer, and introduced tough new reforms to crack down on the risk of profiteering,...
Penny Mordaunt: I believe in aid
...of cutting-edge technology to transform the way we do development, or drought-resistant seeds to boost food production, or new vaccines to wipe out disease. We must leave no-one behind, including...
The Prime Minister's G7 commitments on climate, the environment and education
...world. The Daily Mail covered the news, reporting that the announcement would see UK aid take the equivalent of 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the air, helping...
UK aid marks World Polio Day
...face of the earth”, noting the $2 billion which Rotary International has raised towards the campaign since 1985. Regional newspapers the Dudley News and Droitwich Advertiser wrote about Paul Robinson,...