International Development Committee announces its first Area of Research Interest
The House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, with the support of POST, is trialing select committee Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) as a pilot exercise to better understand and assess how they can support parliamentary scrutiny.
The International Development Committee is the first select committee to launch an area of research interest. Their ARI is focused on ‘changes to the UK aid budget’ and designed to help reinforce the Committee’s scrutiny of changes to the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, the Integrated Review and the forthcoming Development Strategy (which will guide UK aid from 2022 onwards).
The call for academics, research institutions and experts has now closed. The International Development Committee will publish their ARIs in the coming months.