Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the recommendations of the report of the Public Accounts Committee, Department for International Development: responding to crises, published on 20 April 2016, what steps she is taking to ensure that her Department improves its system of accounting for ODA spend on humanitarian emergencies.

The Government will respond to the Committee’s recommendations in the usual way in a Treasury Minute which will be laid before Parliament.