Third Special Report - UK aid to Pakistan: Government Response to the Sixth Report of the Committee, Session 2021–22

This is the government's response, published 4 November 2022.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says its aim is to move Pakistan from a "traditional aid relationship to a mature development partnership", with fewer, smaller development objectives, while continuing support for girls, women and marginalised groups.

• On the committee's call for long-term programmes, it says it "recognise[s] the importance of long-term approaches", and states that programme types and duration are based on the best available evidence and fit with UK priorities and the overall ODA budget allocation.
• On the Integrated Delivery Plan, it says the plan was replaced in 2021 by a Country Plan, which is "an internal document", and that a "light-touch review" of the Country Business Plan will take place "in the next few months".
• On NGO operating space, it commits that the FCDO "will write to the Committee within nine months to update on progress as requested".
• On nutrition, it says it has "exited bilateral ODA finance of nutrition" because other donors are active, while continuing to fund UN agencies that provide nutrition policy and services.

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