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In contrast, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the amount of money the UK spends on international development will increase by a further £1 billion a year over the next four years, and that will bring the budget to nearly £15 billion a year, almost as much as the entire Welsh budget.

The UK’s foreign aid approach needs a complete overhaul, and the British taxpayer is entitled to know where the money is being spent. As our national debt continues to skyrocket, how can we justify an aid programme that gives millions of pounds to nations with nuclear and space programmes, when our citizens are living in poverty? My region, Aberavon, is one of the poorest areas, and even whilst walking in the town there are several homeless people lying in the doorways, and this is shameful. So, how can we justify an aid programme that seeks to improve the energy efficiency of Brazilian industry when Welsh taxpayers are struggling to heat their homes? We need a root-and-branch reform of overseas aid that starts with dropping arbitrary targets of spending against national gross income. All this target has done is increase the budget, forcing DFID civil servants to entertain increasingly bizarre ways of spending British taxpayers’ money. Our nation is struggling, and our citizens deserve consideration.

However, we have evidence of moneys being well spent abroad in response to Africa, where we combated Ebola in Sierra Leona and Liberia. The UK Government committed £427 million of direct support to help contain, control, treat and ultimately defeat Ebola. UK direct support included deployment of medical experts from the NHS and the military, which supplied treatment centres—1,400 beds for treatment, including isolation beds, to combat the disease. There were also six Ebola treatment centres across the country built, training teams to train front-line workers. Four thousand healthcare workers were taught logistics and how to be hygienists in the medical profession, which included the Sierra Leone army and prison staff. People were also taught in teams across the country how to bury the dead safely. There were emergency supplies such as food and chlorine, and scientific research was carried out by building laboratories to understand how Ebola had spread. The operation was co-ordinated by the military. The operation worked because the Government and the countries were not simply handed money and told to get on with it. The people had great pride from learning and were left with a legacy of trained clinicians, healthcare centres, and scientific support and research. The people had pride in learning, and the British taxpayer could see tangible proof and evidence of where that money had been spent. And while the people of Britain are generous, accountability and transparency of taxpayers’ money is of paramount importance.