Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.

DFID workforce management information, containings detail on consultant, temporary staff and contingent labour, is available on the government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfid-workforce-management-information-public-body/

This includes information from 2010-11 up to and including August 2014.

Providing further detail, including the information on individual contracts could only be provided at disproportionate cost.