Rwanda: Overseas Aid

Department for International Development written question – answered at on 12 September 2017.

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Photo of Neil Coyle Neil Coyle Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the use of UK Foreign Aid in Rwanda.

Photo of Rory Stewart Rory Stewart Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development), Minister of State (Department for International Development) (Joint with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

All UK aid in Rwanda is earmarked for specific programmes only, such as education and agriculture, and is subject to robust monitoring to ensure results and value for money for the UK taxpayer. Our aid helps to lift a quarter of a million Rwandans out of poverty every year.

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