UK aid spending during COVID-19: management of procurement through suppliers

Aid-spending government departments worked flexibly with suppliers to minimise the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their work, but lack of transparency about the government’s new aid priorities hampered delivery, and the long-term impact of the cuts to the UK aid programme remains to be seen.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 4 December 2020
  3. Type: Information note
  4. Subject: Government processes and systems
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Lead commissioner: Sir Hugh Bayley

International Development Committee

We expect there will be an International Development Committee hearing into this note in due course.

Timeline

Approach

Published 29 October 2020

Evidence gathering

Complete

Information note publication

Published 4 December 2020

Further scrutiny

Details to be confirmed