More than £1bn in British foreign aid doled out in cash over last five years

MORE than £1billion in British foreign aid has been doled out in cash over the last five years, it emerged last night.

As part of the scheme, 235,000 Pakistani families get money every three months to help them get by.

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And plans are afoot to expand the scheme to hundreds of thousands more households.

The budget has rocketed from £53million in 2006 to £219m from 2011-15. More than 9.3million people in 14 countries have received cash since 2010.

In Pakistan families get £34.50 a quarter — but the system has been dogged with allegations of corruption.

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Safiullah Khan, 49, a cart pusher in Peshawar, said a local councillor demanded a bribe to enrol his family.

He told the : “I paid it and my card was prepared.”

Tory MP Nigel Evans called for a probe, saying: “It seems we’re exporting the dole to Pakistan, clearly not a clever idea.”

A Department for International Development spokesman said: “Cash transfers allow aid to be targeted to those who need it.”