Recommendation 32

We welcome the government’s designation of the ICF annual results report as Official Government Statistics for the first time as this marks a positive step on data integrity and transparency. We were also pleased to learn that overall, the UK outperforms in ICF Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) relative to its international counterparts. However, it’s clear to the committee that gaps remain in the frequency, quality and disaggregation of the ICF results and spending data currently published. Substantial improvements are required to allow effective scrutiny of the UK’s ICF and enable assessment of whether spending across the government’s full portfolio is cost-effective and generating impact for the most climate- vulnerable countries and groups. (Conclusion, Paragraph 110)