Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided to the Private Infrastructure Development Group in each of the last five years.
Ensuring Value for Money is central to all of DFID’s work. Alongside robust monitoring arrangements there are stringent criteria on demonstrating clear need and anticipated development impact before any funds are released. In addition, all projects worth over £5m are now signed off by Ministers.
Funding to the Private Infrastructure Development Group in the last five years is as follows:
| 2013/14 | £148m |
| 2012/13 | £102m |
| 2011/12 | £93m |
| 2010/11 | £12m |
| 2009/10 | £21m |