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in English law, aiding and abetting is the helping in some way of the principal offender. It is in itself a crime but depends upon some earlier communication between the parties. See, for Scotland, ART AND PART.

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As individuals, we proudly donate more than PS2.5bn privately to many overseas causes that I suspect reaches more desperate people directly than the staggering PS12bn-plus Government UK overseas aid.

Charity begins at home

This figure is so large that it is not unreasonable to question to what extent the PS500 million pounds of overseas aid actually achieves.

Are there better ways to spread the wealth?

Under the committee's rules a country can count certain refugee-related expenses as overseas aid for the first year after a refugee's arrival.

Britain one of six rich countries to meet UN foreign aid target; The UK donated [pounds sterling]13.21 billion in overseas aid in 2015

OVERSEAS AID:Cut billions from international development budget.

Party unveils plan to scrap spy agencies

That may not go over very well with Conservative MPs who are demanding that Prime Minister David Cameron scale back overseas aid while domestic Britain suffers deep public spending cuts.

Britain's Aid To Nigerian Schools Have Failed: Report

Overseas aid should be "a matter of private charity", he insisted.

Overseas aid must end, says Tory MP

The fact tens of thousands can die without massive appeals and fundraising concerts is why Welsh MP David Davies is wrong when he calls on the Government to cut funding overseas aid and divert cash to ease the budget cuts facing the police.

With concerted efforts we can do so much to help

Details of the foreign projects emerged just days after Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, criticised Government overseas aid.

BBC foreign aid charity under attack for producing safe sex ads in India

The decisions, to be announced by International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on Tuesday, follow a nine-month review by Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of its overseas aid budget, one of the world's biggest.

Britain to cut aid to some countries, organisations

In May 2007, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Development described the restrictions as "cruel and illogical" and recommended that family planning, contraception, and sexual and reproductive health services should be integrated with HIV/AIDS programmes and that at least 10% of Australia's overseas aid budget should be devoted to sexual and reproductive health.

Australia lifting gag rule on foreign aid for abortion

Aid agency Oxfam International, launching today its report Credibility Crunch--Food, Poverty and Climate Change--an agenda for rich country leaders says the ministers' most urgent priority is to fill the US$30b hole in overseas aid. Failure to do this will cost five million lives, Oxfam says.