Weaknesses in the Department for international development are all the more worrying since its budget is set to rise strongly in the next three years, a Commons request found.
Labour donated support £ 1 billion of aid to basic education in Africa and Asia DfID donated. But the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee found the Department to monitor expenditure had failed properly.
Members questioned the Coalition plans to aid expenditure is cut to increase the cost of administering the aid. The Department already shows "Signs of a heavy range in its capacity" and mis spending money more aid could end up beating members.
With the Department of health, DfID is one of only two Whitehall departments, whose budgets will grow between 2011 / 12 and 2014 / 12.
The conservative majority Committee still doubts raised at its ability to ensure that money is used properly.
"We have serious doubts about his ability to judge the value for money, his expenses," said the Committee in a report.
It was "unacceptable" that agree to DFID seemed, "Selective examples and anecdotes" which rely on the effectiveness of its output instead of hard data to demonstrate.
DfID officials to much emphasis on measuring just children entering of education and less how many children actually visit complete primary education or who write and count you reach respected, the Committee found.
In these areas has only "limited progress" has been made.
The Committee also said it "very concerned was" to expect that the Department or deal with fraud in projects it funds was failed. It was marked in the Kenyan education system.
Margaret Hodge, Chairman, said that the DfID's EÚ downtime for upcoming issues round, not good if its budget will grow.
She said: "what us was surprised the Department of lack of a coherent framework for the assessment of the impact and value for money expenditure;" and willingness to rest instead of overall performance on selective examples and anecdotes.
"This is all serious as the Department overall budget increases in real terms by about one-third between now and 2014-15 aid."
Andrew Mitchell, development Secretary said the report "finds serious evidence of errors in the Labour Government, Minister sort out the coalition are."
He added: "this Government is determined to get maximum value for money from its aid and UK to show how and where your money is spent taxpayers."
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