Taxpayers pump millions into 'virtue -signaling' projects instead of real 'humanitarian aid', critics of the British claim of foreign aids.
In the second part of MailOnline's damn research that exposes the extraordinary scale of the British 'wasted' budget of the UK, we have built a search aids with all 3,250 programs in which government projects are still classified as 'active'.
It also reveals that hundreds of schemes apparently played too much, with some mentioned as nearly 15,000 percent about the budget.
An example that both MPS and experts have irritated is a four -year medical investigation that investigates ways to 'prevent diabetic footing in Peru'. That regulation, originally estimated £ 175,000, has already collected nearly half a million pounds.
Another schedule that has led outrage is the Education, Justice and Memory Network (Edjam), which ran in Pakistan for four years between 2020-24. It was intended to inform the people of Pakistan about the violent past of the country through 'innovative practices for teaching and learning'. The scheme ran £ 3.6 million over its £ 1.8 million budget.
William Yarwood, media manager of the media at the alliance of the taxpayer, said MailOnline: 'British are sick of ministers who throw their money to foreign aid projects that do nothing but to check trendy boxes.
'More often than not, what is financed is not humanitarian aid but an exercise funded by the taxpayer in virtue signaling.
“The government must stop this madness and use this money at home where it is most needed.”
In total, Great -Britain gave £ 15.3 billion in foreign help 2023/24.
But the analysis of MailOnline only looks at £ 2.1 billion from the UK's Official Development Assistance (ODA) – also known as our foreign auxiliary budget.
This is because the foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) only publishes a fraction of the nation -specific programs that the British funds.
It means exactly where the other billions Ghent will remain a mystery until the vouchers are counted and published for 2024/25 this fall.
In recent years there has been no shortage of questionable, taxpayer-served aid projects.
Some, such as a quarter of a million pound tranche for 'culturally sensitive mental health and welfare services' for the Kankuamo population of Colombia, £ 50,000 ran over budget.
Others continue to exceed much more.
The 'Land- and Regional stock exchanges and fellowships program' for the Fleming-Fonds-Geschijd in combating resistance to drugs is the most over-budget project under the entire FCDO banner.
The initial £ 67 million pricetag was launched in 2016 and ends on March 31, 2025, ran to £ 211.2 million.
The project aims to explore antimcrobial resistance about the West, East and South Africa and is being carried out exclusively by Croydon-based management consultancy, Mott MacDonald.
Elsewhere, Malaysia, a country of which GDP per head of the population is higher than more than 100 British local authorities, the recipient of a subsidy for renewable energy consumption of the UK's themselves described innovation agency, Innovate UK.
Despite a project budget of £ 0 between May 2024 and April 2026, the scheme has already contracted £ 131.291 in costs and is less than half to completion.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, no less than £ 15 million from British taxpayers will go to improve the facilities and crossing the protocol on the country's border with Uganda.
A handful of projects of the with Office Newton Fund, originally budgeted at just over £ 140,000, have since collected bills of more than £ 21 million.
It comes after MailOnline has revealed how almost a third of the budget is swallowed by hosting asylum seekers and refugees in Britain.
Almost £ 4.3 billion was spent on so-called 'in donor refugee costs' in 2023-a ninefold increase since COVID, as a result of the rising toll of small boat transitions.
Up to £ 8.2 million a day goes to accommodation for asylum seekers, with the rest of the pot spread over education, health and other social needs.
Sarah Champion, Labor MP for Rotherham, said that the spending on internal migrants represented one of the worst tax judgments of the home office.
The Independent Commission for AID Impact (ICAI) Watchdog, which examines the official development aid of the VK (ODA) or overseas auxiliary budget, warns vital projects inevitably in an although the government eliminates the bill.
In 2023, the UK only assigned £ 2.7 billion directly to specific countries in bilateral aid – against £ 5.9 billion in 2019.
The Icai said that the reduction was 'heavily affected by budget reductions and rising refugee costs in donor'.
Labor has sworn to beat the ODA pot to just 0.3 percent of GNI by 2027, under plans to save more than £ 6 billion only that year.
This will all be pumped into defense expenditure instead to strengthen the military of Great Britain, the tensions with Russia would turn into a complete conflict.
A FCDO spokesperson said: 'We are dedicated to modernize our approach with less money: collaborating with our partners in new ways to maximize our impact.
'These latest changes to the ODA budget will offer more certainty and stability, so that we can offer the best price -quality ratio for taxpayers.
'The UK ODA budget will gradually be reduced from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent GNI by 2027/28, to finance a necessary increase in defense expenditure.
'In order to enable us to effectively deliver this change, we maximize our flexibility by concentrating on complying with legally binding obligations and delivering all underway, while we continue to play an important humanitarian role in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan.
'Our development spending is a strategic investment that contributes to a safer, more prosperous VK. Worldwide challenges such as conflicts, climate crisis and poverty have a direct influence on British life, due to irregular migration pressure, reduced trade options and threats for our national security. '
