When the Coalition came into power it set the Department of International Development (DFID) a target of allocating 30% of the UK’s bilateral official development assistance (the term devised by the OECD and its member countries to determine whether funding or other support counts as aid or not) by 2014-15. In many ways this was…
On Monday the 19th May there was a question about the regulation of offshore tax havens, particularly the Channel Islands. I intervened as this is an interesting example of the constitutional position of these islands. Their financial activities are now subject to examination by the the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html ) but the…
