Tackling fraud in UK aid

The government’s approach to managing fraud in the aid programme is broadly relevant and effective – but more can be done to find fraud cases by improving oversight and intelligence sharing across aid-spending departments, and streamlining and enhancing whistleblowing systems.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 8 April 2021
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Anti-corruption, tax avoidance and fiduciary risk
  5. Lead commissioner: Tarek Rouchdy

Government response

The government publishes a response to all ICAI reviews, indicating whether they ‘accept’, ‘partially accept’ or ‘reject’ each of ICAI’s recommendations and setting out the management actions that they propose to take in response.

The government’s response to our fraud review is available to read online.

Timeline

Approach

Published 9 October 2020

Evidence gathering

Complete

Review publication

Published 8 April 2021

Government response

Published 20 May 2021

Parliamentary scrutiny

IDC hearing 7 July 2021

ICAI follow-up

Published 30 June 2022

Further follow-up

Published 18 July 2023

Third follow-up

Expected summer 2024