Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts her Department has held with private security companies in each year since 2008; what the cost of those contracts was; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID has held a total of 8 centrally let contracts with private security companies since 2008 and the total cost of those contracts is £6.2M. The table below provides details by year concerning the number of contracts and the cost of those contracts. It should be noted that some of these contracts were active over multiple years:
Year | Number of Contracts | Cost of Contract (GBP) |
2008 | 3 | 13,589 |
2009 | 5 | 1,008,753 |
2010 | 2 | 816,566 |
2011 | 2 | 725,825 |
2012 | 1 | 1,147,414 |
2013 | 1 | 1,680,187 |
2014 | 1 | 854,352 |
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the New Alliance for Food and Security and Nutrition programmes on small-scale food producers in areas supported by that programme.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Every DFID programme which is contributing to the New Alliance initiative is subject to DFID’s annual review processes. In addition, this year partner governments have been conducting their first annual reviews of the effects of the New Alliance at country level. The list of countries who have submitted reports to date is available on the New Alliance website.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 381W, on development aid, if she will publish the agreement (a) between her Department, the CDC and ACTIS on the Department for International Development impact fund and (b) between her Department and ACTIS when it was spun off from the CDC; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Justine Greening
The agreement between my Department and CDC for the Impact Fund will be placed in the House of Commons Library.
Copies of the key documents relating to CDC and Actis were placed in the Library of the House by the then Secretary of State for International Development subsequent to his Ministerial Statement on the CDC reorganisation of 12 July 2004.