Recommendation 2

The committee recognises that classification of humanitarian spending as ICF is not uncommon practice among the UK’s international counterparts. Nonetheless, we urge the government to minimise its use of this approach, where it arbitrarily classifies a fixed proportion of humanitarian spending as ICF, including projects already assessed for their ICF contribution. The committee is also concerned that we were unable to verify the £11.6 billion that the government states it has spent between 2021–22 to 2025–26 in climate finance due to lack of available evidence, and we would urge them to publish a full breakdown. (Recommendation, Paragraph 18) 52