Foreign Aid

Britain spent £623million on foreign aid last year

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Britain spent £623million on foreign aid last year… to fund projects including wiping out giant mice on an island in the Atlantic and rebuilding a mosque in Egypt Britain’s foreign aid budget soared to a record £15.2billion in 2019 – up 4.3%  UK paid 1 out of every £8 in foreign aid given by 29 … Read more

Inquiry begins into whether £14.6bn UK spends every year on foreign aid is effective use of money 

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Inquiry begins into whether £14.6bn UK spends every year on foreign aid is an effective use of money MPs are to investigate effectiveness of the foreign aid billions spent by Britain  International Development Committee to consider if aid makes lasting impact  Mosque in Egypt was rebuilt using British aid, Daily Mail revealed last month By … Read more

MPs will hold emergency debate over ‘jihadi textbooks’ handed out at schools in Palestine

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MPs will hold emergency debate over ‘jihadi textbooks’ handed out at schools in Palestine and paid for by £120m of UK taxpayers’ cash Reading exercises for six-year-olds funded by UK aid includes the word ‘martyr’  Nine-year-olds study maths by adding the martyrs in Palestinian uprisings About £120 million of UK funding has gone where the … Read more

Jihadi textbooks in schools funded by £100 million of OUR cash as foreign aid

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Ministers pledged urgent action last night after it emerged that British foreign aid cash is funding schools where textbooks on martyrdom and radical Islamism are used. The Daily Mail has discovered that tens of millions of pounds of UK foreign aid is helping fund schools in Gaza and the West Bank that use such material … Read more