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Recommendation 7
7
Accepted
Paragraph: 64
The UK’s development legislation plays an intrinsic part in ensuring that aid is spent well...
Recommendation
The UK’s development legislation plays an intrinsic part in ensuring that aid is spent well and is focused upon poverty reduction. The very presence of this legislation demonstrates the UK’s role as a serious player in international development, and accordingly the Government should commit to maintaining the UK’s development legislation.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government confirms its commitment to poverty reduction and states it will undergo the necessary process to transfer responsibilities under the International Development Act to the new FCDO, maintaining the legislation and the 0.7% aid spending commitment.
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Paragraph Reference:
64
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
The UK will continue to champion poverty reduction, gender equality and tackle exclusion in international development because that’s the only way we will create a fairer, safer and more prosperous world, and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the right thing to do, serves the national interest and will be central to the new department’s mission. We will undergo the necessary process to transfer responsibilities under the International Development Act to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Spending 0.7 per cent of our national income on aid is enshrined in law and is a manifesto commitment. “We recommend that the Government appoints a Minister for Development with responsibility for the totality of the UK’s aid spend, and that this Minister attends Cabinet. We also recommend that this Minister attends the National Security Council”. (Paragraph 69) The Foreign Secretary is responsible for development and aid spend.
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