Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the proportion of UK aid that is lost to corruption each year; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the amount of such aid that is lost to corruption.

DFID publishes all confirmed fraud on its external website (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about), where details of substantiated fraud losses, before and after recovery actions, are shown. DFID takes a robust approach to the recovery of UK taxpayers’ funds and has achieved high recovery rates over recent years.