Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:58 pm on 24 January 2018.
No, no, no. This is fact. This is fact. This fact.
In the last few days we learnt of a project—[Interruption.] No. We learnt of a project that is supposed to deliver wells, water pumps and irrigation across southern Africa, yet nearly 70 per cent of that funding did not go to the people it was supposed to reach. It went on consultancy fees, with staff being paid £600 per day.
How can we justify a foreign aid budget where the top beneficiary, Pakistan, spends over £2 billion a year on nuclear weapons, and the tenth largest beneficiary, India, spends £1 billion on a space programme? Come on. Let's get it right. We must use overseas aid to benefit the people who really need this aid, and it's not getting there.