Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many consultants her Department has hired since 2016; and at what cost to the taxpayer.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.
The table below shows the value of spend on external consultants in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Year | Spend |
16/17 FY | £25,822 |
17/18 FY | £11,630 |
18/19 YTD | £28,858 |
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many consultations by her Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.
Answered by Alistair Burt
All public government consultations are uploaded onto GOV.UK where one can filter consultations by many criteria, including department, official document status and date of publication.
a) None are open
b) A response has been issued to all consultations
c) Two have been initiated since 2016
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money her Department has raised from the sale of (a) assets, (b) land and (c) buildings in each year since 2010.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
Since April 2010, the Department for International Development has raised £29.6m from the sale of assets, of which £20.3m is from the disposal of buildings. The remaining sales were made up of miscellaneous items such as equipment and vehicles.
Year | Total Proceeds from Sale of Property, Vehicles, Equipment* | Total Proceeds from Sale of Land | Total Proceeds from Sale of Buildings |
£’000 | £’000 | £’000 | |
2016/17 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
2015/16 | 1,902 | 0 | 0 |
2014/15 | 20,458 | 0 | 20,200 |
2013/14 | 1,196 | 0 | 0 |
2012/13 | 590 | 0 | 0 |
2011/12 | 3,841 | 0 | 0 |
2010/11 | 1,638 | 0 | 98 |
Total | 29,641 | 0 | 20,298 |