Question follow-through · 29961
Foreign Aid: Parliamentary Scrutiny
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to ensure that every line of foreign aid spending must be approved by Parliament.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 7 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 21 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to ensure that every line of foreign aid spending must be approved by Parliament.
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Feb 2025
Answer published
All government spending is approved by Parliament in the Budget. There are no plans to introduce new legislation for ODA spending.To support effective programme delivery, the publicly available FCDO Programme Operating Framework sets out the mandatory rul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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