International Development (Reporting and Transparency)

Bills Presented – in the House of Commons at 12:31 pm on 22 June 2005.

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Mr. Tom Clarke, supported by Ann McKechin, Mr. Nicholas Brown, John Barrett, Angela Browning, Mr. Alex Salmond, Dan Norris, Ed Balls, Lady Hermon, Dr. Hywel Francis, John Bercow and Keith Vaz, presented a Bill to require the Secretary of State to report annually on total expenditure on international development assistance as a proportion of gross national income, and in particular on progress towards the target for expenditure on official development assistance to constitute 0.7 per cent. of gross national income; to require such reports to contain information about expenditure by country, about the proportion of expenditure in low income countries and about the effectiveness of expenditure in each country; to make provision about the transparency of international development assistance; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 20 January, and to be printed. [Bill 19].