Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - politics Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailBoris Johnson has scrapped the UK’s overseas aid department - saying it has been used as a "giant cashpoint in the sky". The Department for International Development (DfID) will be taken over by the Foreign Office - along with control of the UK's £14.5 billion foreign aid budget. (Image: PA)Anne-Marie Trevelyan will remain as International Development Secretary until early September when the new department is formally established. But former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell told the BBC scrapping his former department would be a "quite extraordinary mistake". “Given the enormity of the UK’s aid budget, it is particularly shocking that transparency remains a huge problem that Government departments are failing to grapple.”

Source: Daily Mirror June 16, 2020 12:52 UTC