Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to page 2 of her Department's strategic framework for economic development for shared prosperity and poverty reduction, published in January 2013, how the £1.8 billion of her Department's budget to be targeted on economic development will be allocated to different activities and countries.

Regular monitoring to ensure value for money is embedded within all DFID’s economic development programmes; evaluations of programme effectiveness are commissioned where appropriate. Funding for these activities is allocated within each individual programme budget.

DFID uses a range of instruments to deliver the Economic Development Strategy; while programme design is based on an assessment of need and context. In addition, we centrally monitor all economic development spending to enhance portfolio coherence.