The effectiveness of Official Development Assistance expenditure

HM Treasury should, as part of the Spending Review: • develop a systematic approach to assessing departments' capability and capacity to deliver their plans for ODA expenditure and their plans to consider the effectiveness of that spending; and • consider each department's and cross-cutting fund's actual ODA expenditure against the budget agreed as part of the Spending Review 2015, to contribute to its assessment of each department's capacity to deliver programmes funded in this way.

Ref Page 15, paragraph 25 · Implemented Q1 2021-22

HM Treasury should, when agreeing the framework for assessing progress against the objectives in the UK Aid strategy, allocate responsibilities for monitoring progress.

Ref Page 15, paragraph 26

HM Treasury should develop guidance on how departments and cross-cutting funds might make the impact of their ODA expenditure more transparent as part of, for example,the annual report and accounts process.

Ref Page 15, paragraph 27 · Implemented Q1 2021-22

HM Treasury and DFID should set out the steps they will take, across a range of scenarios, to make sure the UK meets its legal obligation regarding the ODA target in the light of the UK's decision to leave the European Union.

Ref Page 15, paragraph 28

Each department should, depending on the outcome of the DFID-funded review of transparency performance, produce a plan for the actions required to help it meet the target.

Ref Page 16, paragraph 29 · Implemented 05/2022

Departments should: • classify their programmes according to the type of performance measure (such as activities, outputs and outcomes) to which they are best suited: and • then, working together, share information on the approaches they take across these classifications.

Ref Page 16, paragraph 30 · Implemented 06/2022