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Ministers could cut off funding for Oxfam if it cannot account for the way it handled claims of sexual misconduct by aid workers, the international development secretary has warned. More than 120 people working for British charities were accused of sexual abuse in the past year, the newspaper reported, though it did not specify the exact dates or the source of the information. She told the BBC One Andrew Marr Show: “If they do not hand over all the information that they have from their investigation and subsequently to the relevant authorities, including the Charity Commission and prosecuting authorities, then I cannot work with them anymore as an aid delivery partner.”

Ms Mordaunt said she would tell Oxfam chiefs: “If the moral leadership at the top of the organisation is not there then we cannot have you as a partner.” Ms Mordaunt said the charity had also “categorically” stated to the Department for International Development that no harm was done and beneficiaries were not involved. Oxfam has said it dismissed four people and allowed three others to resign after an internal 2011 investigation revealed that sexual misconduct, bullying, intimidation and a failure to protect staff hampered the charity’s Haiti operation. Meanwhile, Priti Patel said allegations against Oxfam staff are only the “tip of the iceberg” of a global aid scandal that she raised with officials when she was Development Secretary. She told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics: “There has been, in my view, not just a cover-up with Oxfam there is a denial, a culture of denial in the aid sector about the exploitation and sexual abuse that has taken place historically for decades.” Charity Commission chiefs have written to Oxfam to request further information about the scandal. Penny Lawrence, Oxfam program director at the time, said she was “ashamed that this happened on my watch.”

Still, it’s unclear whether the resignation will quell the scandal, which first emerged when the Times of London reported last week that seven former Oxfam staff members who worked in Haiti faced misconduct allegations that included using prostitutes and downloading pornography.
United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt tells BBC One that Oxfam's failure to pass on information regarding sexual misconduct allegations of its workers in Haiti and Chad shows an "absolute" absence and failure of moral leadership.