Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 6 October 2017 to Question 105728, on United Nations: secondment, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the United Nations Junior Professional Officer programme; and when she plans to publish her Department's (a) review of the three year pilot phase and (b) 2017 annual review of that programme.

Following consideration of the strategic impact of the Junior Professional Officer programme, I have decided to terminate the programme, as it no longer meets the UK Government’s strategic priorities for international secondments, nor does it continue to represent the best value for money for UK taxpayers. A programme completion report will be made available in early 2018 in the usual way through DFID’s development tracker.