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30-586: The committee was responsible for scrutiny of the International Development Committee's predecessor, the Department for International Development . Membership of the committee is as follows: As of July 2022, the committee's membership was as follows: & Party & Party The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017. & Party & Party The chair

60-492: A view to creating jobs in an area subject to long-term industrial decline . In 1997, the department was separated again from the Foreign Office, when a Labour government returned under Tony Blair. Labour also reduced the amount of aid tied to purchasing British goods and services, which had often led to aid being spent ineffectually. In September 2020, the department and the Foreign Office were yet again merged to form

90-438: Is an electoral process to choose most or all members of an elected body, typically a legislature . They are distinct from by-elections , which fill a seat that has become vacant between general elections. In most systems, a general election is a regularly scheduled election, typically including members of a legislature, and sometimes other officers such as a directly elected president . General elections may also take place at

120-554: The 1918 election onwards, the elections in all constituencies have been held on the same day. There has been a convention since the 1930s that general elections in Britain should take place on a Thursday; the last general election to take place on any other weekday was that of 1931 . Under the terms of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 , in force until March 2022, the period between one general election and

150-711: The Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 was enacted. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act was repealed by the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022 . The term general election is also used in the United Kingdom to refer to elections to any democratically elected body in which all members are up for election. Section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998 , for example, specifically refers to ordinary elections to

180-634: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office by Boris Johnson's Conservative government. The DFID or ODA's role has been under: As of 2008, along with the Nordic countries , the DFID generally avoided setting up its own programmes, in order to avoid creating unnecessary bureaucracy. To achieve this, the DFID distributed most of its money to governments and other international organisations that had already developed suitable programmes, and let them distribute

210-857: The November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle . When it was the Overseas Development Administration, a scandal erupted concerning the department's funding of a hydroelectric dam on the Pergau River in Malaysia, near the Thai border. Building work had begun in 1991 with money from the British foreign aid budget. Concurrently, the Malaysian government bought around £1 billion worth of arms from British dealers, and thus became

240-612: The Comptroller and Auditor General agreed would be valuable. The study found that the DFID had improved in its general scrutiny of progress in reducing poverty and of progress towards divisional goals, however noted that there was still clear scope for further improvement. In 2016, the DFID was taken to task with accusations of misappropriation of funding in the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat . Whistleblower Sean McLaughlin commenced legal action against

270-617: The DFID was to be merged with the Foreign Office to create the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office . The department was scrutinized by the International Development Committee . Following Labour's 2024 ascension to government, there has been speculation that DFID could be reestablished as a ministry of its own once more. However, since the General Election , the new Government has not yet committed to this. The final permanent secretary

300-576: The Department for International Development and its predecessors have been independent departments or part of the Foreign Office. After the election of a Conservative government in October 1970, the Ministry of Overseas Development was renamed the "Overseas Development Administration" (ODA) and incorporated into the Foreign Office. The ODA was overseen by a minister of state in the Foreign Office who

330-462: The Department of Trade and Industry arose in part because of the introduction of French mixed credit programmes, which had begun to offer French government support from aid funds for exports, including for projects in countries to which France had not previously given substantial aid. After the election of the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the ministry was transferred back to

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360-621: The Foreign Office, as a functional wing again named the Overseas Development Administration. The ODA continued to be represented in the cabinet by the Foreign Secretary while the Minister for Overseas Development, who had day-to-day responsibility for development matters, held the rank of minister of state within the Foreign Office. In the early 1980s, part of the agency's operations was relocated to East Kilbride in Scotland, with

390-580: The Scottish Parliament as general elections. In U.S. politics, general elections are elections held at any level (e.g. city, county, congressional district, state) that typically involve competition between at least two parties. General elections occur every two to six years (depending on the positions being filled, with most positions good for four years) and include the presidential election. "General election" does not refer to special elections , which fill out positions prematurely vacated by

420-532: The department in the Eastern Caribbean Court, questioning the DFID fraud investigation process. In June 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would be brought together to form the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office from 1 September the same year, centralising oversight of Britain's foreign aid budget. The stated aim, according to Johnson,

450-498: The department was "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty". DFID was headed by the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development . The position was last held by Anne-Marie Trevelyan , who assumed office on 13 February 2020 and served until the department was dissolved on 2 September 2020. In a 2010 report by the Development Assistance Committee , the department

480-650: The department worked to support the United Nations ' eight Millennium Development Goalswith a 2015 deadline, namely to: The department had its origins in the "Ministry of Overseas Development" created during the Labour government of 1964–1970 , which combined the functions of the Department of Technical Cooperation and the overseas aid policy functions of the Foreign, Commonwealth Relations, and Colonial Offices and of other government departments. Over its history,

510-402: The fact that this is a British organisation; it could be anything. The Americans have USAID , Canada has got CIDA ." The 2009 National Audit Office Performance Management review looked at how the DFID had restructured its performance management arrangements over the last six years. The report responded to a request from the DFID's Accounting Officer to re-visit the topic periodically, which

540-424: The money as efficiently as possible. In July 2009, the DFID rebranded all its aid programmes with the "UK aid" logo, to make clear the contributions were coming from the people of the United Kingdom. While the decision was met with some controversy among aid workers at the time, Commons International Development Select Committee Chairman Malcolm Bruce explained the rebranding, saying "the name DFID does not reflect

570-606: The next was fixed at five years, unless the House of Commons passed one of the following: Although not provided for in the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, an early election could also be brought about by an act of parliament specifically calling for a general election, which (unlike the second option above) only required a simple majority. This was the mechanism used to precipitate the December 2019 election , when

600-481: The powers of the minister for overseas development were formally transferred to the Foreign Secretary. In 1977, partly to shore up its difficult relations with UK business, the government introduced the Aid and Trade Provision. This enabled aid to be linked to nonconcessionary export credits, with both aid and export credits tied to procurement of British goods and services. Pressure for this provision from UK businesses and

630-461: The previous office holder. Major general elections are as follows: The term general election is distinguished from primaries or caucuses, which are intra-party elections meant to select a party's official candidate for a particular race. Thus, if a primary is meant to elect a party's candidate for the position-in-question, a general election is meant to elect who occupies the position itself. Presidential primaries happen several months before

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660-540: The same time as local , state / autonomous region , European Parliament , and other elections, where applicable. For example, on 25 May 2014, Belgian voters elected their national parliament , 21 members of the European Parliament , and regional parliaments . In the United States , "general election" has a slightly different, but related meaning: the ordinary electoral competition following

690-481: The selection of candidates in the primary election . The term general election in the United Kingdom often refers to the elections held on the same day in all constituencies of their members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons . Historically, English and later British general elections took place over a period of several weeks, with individual constituencies holding polling on different days. However, from

720-472: The subject of a UK government inquiry from March 1994. In February 2015, the DFID ended its financial support for a controversial development project alleged to have helped the Ethiopian government fund a brutal resettlement programme. Four million people were forced off their land by security forces while their homes and farms were sold to foreign investors. General Election A general election

750-642: Was Matthew Rycroft , who assumed office in January 2018. The main piece of legislation governing the department's work was the International Development Act 2002 , which came into force on 17 June 2002, replacing the Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980 . The Act made poverty reduction the focus of the department's work, and effectively outlawed tied aid . As well as responding to disasters and emergencies,

780-699: Was a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom , from 1997 to 2020. It was responsible for administering foreign aid internationally. The Department for International Development (DFID) was founded by the UK government in 1997. The department was established by the Labour government under Prime Minister Tony Blair. The structure of the DFID was authored by various Developmental Aid Experts including Chris Collins, Barnaby Edwards Machteld, Nicolas Brown and Timothy Montague Hamilton Douglas. The goal of

810-523: Was accountable to the Foreign Secretary . Though it became a section of the Foreign Office, the ODA was relatively self-contained with its own minister, and the policies, procedures, and staff remained largely intact. When a Labour government was returned to office in 1974, it announced that there would once again be a separate "Ministry of Overseas Development" with its own minister. From June 1975

840-549: Was described as "an international development leader in times of global crisis". The UK aid logo is often used to publicly acknowledge DFID's development programmes are funded by UK taxpayers. The DFID's main programme areas of work were Education, Health, Social Services, Water Supply and Sanitation, Government and Civil Society, Economic Sector (including Infrastructure, Production Sectors and Developing Planning), Environment Protection, Research, and Humanitarian Assistance. In June 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that

870-791: Was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015. & Party & Party The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010. & Party & Party Department for International Development King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Department for International Development ( DFID )

900-504: Was to "unite our aid with our diplomacy and bring them together in our international effort". Three former British Prime Ministers ( David Cameron , Gordon Brown and Tony Blair ) criticised the plan. Johnson merged the two departments together in September 2020, forming the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. In criticism of the merge, Opposition leader Keir Starmer kept the shadow department and its ministers in place until

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