£1 billion missing from overseas aid
I tend to keep to local things on this blog so rarely write about overseas aid and international development. But Kingston has recognised that we can 'Think globally, act locally' by becoming a Fair Trade borough.
So this piece of research last week by Lynne Featherstone (Lib Dem MP for Hornsey & Wood Green) was a bit of an eye opener. She discovered that £1 billion had secretly been removed from the overseas aid budget for 2007-2008. This is money that goes to the poorest countries in the world.
When she questioned Douglas Alexander about this in the House of Commons he just seemed confused and would not admit it had happened. What is going on?
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