Clause 6 - Financial assistance
International Development Bill
3:15 pm
Mr Andrew Rowe (Faversham and Mid Kent, Conservative)
To row back to a point that we discussed the other day, is the Minister satisfied that his Department is making sufficient efforts to ensure that UK NGOs, to which the Department gives money, are energetic enough in ensuring that as high as possible a percentage of their employees come from the relevant countries and are not expatriates? In many cases, the effect of our policies and those of other northern countries, even where the money given out is not intended as tied aid, seems to be that a huge proportion is taken as salaries for, if one would like to put it this way, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant workers rather than people from the intended countries?