Professional aid staff working in some of the poorest parts of the world are earning up to £1,000 per DAY, as the Department for International Development (DfID) clambers to use up its £12bn budget.
Spending on "fat cat" consultants has doubled to £1.4billion in the last four years, new figures have revealed.
The Government has committed to spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid – with all three main parties having signed up to the legally-binding pledge for the next parliament.
Only Ukip have vowed to scrap the pledge, promising instead to match the United States' commitment to plough 0.2 per cent of GDP into foreign aid.
Nigel Farage's party has also announced it would close DfID and merge it with the Foreign Office.
The figures, reported by The Times, suggest much of the huge budget is being handed to ‘team leaders’ whose earnings total at least £120,000 a year once travel and expenses are included.
Some consultancy firms are said to take 50 per cent cuts from aid deals, potentially stripping millions of pounds from the aid system.
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