Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of her Department's budget she expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.

Under this Government's transparency programme, contracts and future contract pipeline information is published on Contracts Finder which is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

In regards to the proportion of my Departments contracted spends to overall budget, full copies of the annual accounts are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=annual+accounts&publication_filter_option=corporate-reports&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-international-development&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results