How transparent is the UK on aid spending?

Since the 1970s, aid spending has hovered around 1 percent of the federal budget.

Congressman Vern Buchanan (FL-13) calls for a review of foreign aid spending.

Hague says there are international definitions of aid spending.

Spending money on the World Service would not count as aid spending.

Second, it would take money from foreign aid spending and use it for domestic purposes, a shift the act forbids before Oct. 1, 1993.

But American aid spending has stagnated at about $10 billion since the end of the cold war.

The European Union has also announced substantial increases in its aid spending.

And the ranks of those who thought the level of foreign aid spending was "about right" had swelled to 40.7 percent.

Such a pledge would double foreign aid spending, to 1 percent of the federal budget.