Public donor with separate aggregate and transaction-level disclosures

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is the UK department whose parliamentary answer and spending records disclose support for GDI. It also appears as a partner in the broader Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme.

Amounts and accounting boundaries

Written answer 149420 reports £1,999,026 provided between 2019 and 2022 for activities outside the United States and a further £600,797 in the 2022/23 financial-year context. A September 2022 ledger separately lists £130,506 for GLOBAL DISINFORMATION INDEX with a 5 September general-ledger date. That row is not added to the reported totals, its identifier is not treated as a grant number, and its ledger date is not verified bank settlement. Exact recipient-company and executed grant terms remain unresolved.

What the records show

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeGlobal Disinformation Index

records a supplier invoice line with a 5 September 2022 GL date

GL accounting date only; preview updated28November2024. Not last-payment proof.

Selected September2022 row records GBP130506, GL date5September2022, identifier300,000,130,671,861 line1, supplier GLOBAL DISINFORMATION INDEX, Project Management category. GL date is not verified bank settlement, identifier not grant number, and row not allocated to either parliamentary total. Financial details: value: 130,506; currency: GBP; kind: published ledger/invoice-line amount; period: September2022 ledger; GL date5September Payment status: bank settlement unverified

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeCounter Disinformation and Media Development Programme

published programme-level budget allocations

Summary published30January2025; historical budget period, not exact governing2022 bytes.

Summary lists FY2022-2023 GBP12million ODA and GBP21.1million non-ODA allocations. GDI is not named; these are not GDI income or demonstrated expenditure.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeCounter Disinformation and Media Development Programme

is named as a programme partner

Programme April2016-March2023; summary published30January2025.

Retrospectively published summary identifies FCDO and Cabinet Office as programme partners. No GDI-specific grant component is identified.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeGlobal Disinformation Index

reported providing funding between 2019 and 2022

Report date24February2023; between2019 and2022 exact period boundaries unspecified.

Ministerial answer149420 reports GBP1999026 provided between2019 and2022 for activities outside the US. Donor-reported aggregate, not a reconciled ledger or contractual restriction on every later use of knowledge/data. Financial details: value: 1,999,026; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported provided funding; period: between2019 and2022; exact boundaries unknown Payment status: donor-reported provision; individual payments unreconciled Which legal entity: Answer uses GDI name without recipient company identifier.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeGlobal Disinformation Index

reported further funding in the then-current financial year

Then-current financial year asof24February2023; exact payment dates not supplied.

Same answer reports a further GBP600797 in current financial year2022-2023. Do not add the separately displayed September2022 invoice row as an independent extra transfer. Financial details: value: 600,797; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported further funding; period: FY2022-2023 context Payment status: donor-reported provision; recipient receipt not independently reconciled

Further reading

FCDO–GDI remit: donor funding and review are documented; reuse rights are not

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What the connections say

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Officereported providing funding between 2019 and 2022Global Disinformation Index

Report date24February2023; between2019 and2022 exact period boundaries unspecified.

Reported by the cited source

Ministerial answer149420 reports GBP1999026 provided between2019 and2022 for activities outside the US. Donor-reported aggregate, not a reconciled ledger or contractual restriction on every later use of knowledge/data.

Financial details: value: 1,999,026; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported provided funding; period: between2019 and2022; exact boundaries unknown

Payment status: donor-reported provision; individual payments unreconciled

Which legal entity: Answer uses GDI name without recipient company identifier.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Officereported further funding in the then-current financial yearGlobal Disinformation Index

Then-current financial year asof24February2023; exact payment dates not supplied.

Reported by the cited source

Same answer reports a further GBP600797 in current financial year2022-2023. Do not add the separately displayed September2022 invoice row as an independent extra transfer.

Financial details: value: 600,797; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported further funding; period: FY2022-2023 context

Payment status: donor-reported provision; recipient receipt not independently reconciled

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Officerecords a supplier invoice line with a 5 September 2022 GL dateGlobal Disinformation Index

GL accounting date only; preview updated28November2024. Not last-payment proof.

Selected September2022 row records GBP130506, GL date5September2022, identifier300,000,130,671,861 line1, supplier GLOBAL DISINFORMATION INDEX, Project Management category. GL date is not verified bank settlement, identifier not grant number, and row not allocated to either parliamentary total.

Financial details: value: 130,506; currency: GBP; kind: published ledger/invoice-line amount; period: September2022 ledger; GL date5September

Payment status: bank settlement unverified

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