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Harman pointed out that legislation to enshrine the commitment, promised in the Queen's Speech, has still not appeared.

It also wants the UK government to bring forward legislation to enshrine the commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on aid.

The legislation is supposed to enshrine the commitments made by the Brazilian government when it won the right to host the event.

Ms Greening said she was in favour of enshrining the commitment to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid in law.

In a nod to the controversy that surrounded the previous coalition government's decision to enshrine the 0.7% commitment in law, Icai says DfID needs to remake its case for working with multilaterals "in an environment that is both critical of the aid agenda and largely distrustful of big global bureaucracies".

Efforts to fulfil the coalition pledge to enshrine the 0.7% commitment in law have been protracted because of backbench Tory attempts to kill the private member's bill brought by the former Lib Dem cabinet minister Michael Moore.

The commitment to enshrine the target in law was set out in the 2010 coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, and repeated in the government's mid-term review in January this year.

Despite a promise to enshrine the 0.7% aid commitment into law – it appeared in the manifestos of all three main political parties in 2010 – it took a private member's bill, introduced by Liberal Democrat MP Michael Moore in September 2014, to secure the debate.

The proposal was condemned by Cummings, who said it would run counter to the longstanding Conservative commitment to enshrine the independence of academies from policies set by the education department.

The Conservative party has committed to holding a referendum by the end of 2017 and I believe parliament should be given a chance to show its support for the prime minister's position and enshrine this commitment in law.

"As part of this, we will continue to support the private member's bill going through Parliament, which looks to enshrine this commitment in law".