A TaxPayers' Alliance investigation has drawn attention to a foreign aid programme that cost taxpayers £99 million. This project aims to introduce electric cooking methods for families in Africa and Asia to stop the use of polluting and wood-burning cooking methods.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, which published these findings, our investigations campaign manager, Joanna Marchong said:
"Taxpayers will be furious at the frittering away of their cash on frivolous foreign aid projects.
"Too many of these costly schemes look like little more than virtue-signalling exercises rather than genuine humanitarian assistance which saves lives."
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