The Mail on
Sunday has spent months investigating how the foreign aid budget is
spent, speaking to diplomats, aid agencies and civil servants, and has
established that hundreds of millions of pounds of the £11.7 billion
Britain sends overseas – perhaps as much as a quarter – are squandered
on unworkable projects and 'consultants' who are little more than
private contractors.
More
than half of industrialised nations reduced their aid budget between
2013 and 2014, but it was revealed last week that under new European
Union rules, Britain's total will swell by £1 billion over the next two
years, making it the second-largest donor in the world after the US.
In
all, according to UK Aid Network – a coalition of aid groups – the
Government is set to spend £12.2 billion on aid this year, accounting
for 1.6 per cent of its total spending."
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