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International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006

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Citation
  
2006 c 31

Royal assent
  
25 July 2006

International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006

Long title
  
An Act to require the Secretary of State to report annually on total expenditure on international aid and on the breakdown of such aid, and in particular on progress towards the target for expenditure on official development assistance to constitute 0.7 per cent of gross national income; to require such reports to contain information about expenditure by country, about the proportion of expenditure in low income countries and about the effectiveness of aid expenditure and the transparency of international aid; and for connected purposes.

The International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006 (c 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Baroness Whitaker said that the purpose of the Act is to ensure that the promises made by the Government at the 31st G8 summit, and any future promises, are kept.

This Act is amended by articles 3 and 4 of the Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043)

References

International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006 Wikipedia