The UK’s aid relationship with China up to 2023-24

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We have published an update on the UK’s aid engagement with China. This looks at changes in UK aid to China up to 2023-24, and follows previous ICAI information notes on this area after the government pledged a drastic reduction in China aid spending in 2021.

Summary

In April 2021 we published our information note, The UK’s aid engagement with China, and identified four lines of inquiry that merited further scrutiny, including improving transparency and the use of ‘development diplomacy’. Since then, we have published three updates including this latest one, to track whether aid to China is falling as expected and monitor the government’s progress on issues ICAI has highlighted such as transparency.