The UK government wants to boost its foreign aid policy with a £100m fund to tackle developing world corruption.The plans are in a new White Paper, which comes after last year’s G8 summit of industrial nations pledged help for African and other developing nations.

Other proposals include substantial spending hikes for health, education, sanitation and social security.

It also calls for an overhaul of the United Nations to enable it to respond better to humanitarian crises.

International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said: “We have made progress in the last 12 months but we have not yet made poverty history.”