Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the joint response from the CDC Group and the Department for International Development to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s recommendations on CDC’s investments in low-income and fragile states, published in March 2019, how many full-time staff CDC plan to have by the end of 2019 in each of its offices outside of the UK.

CDC plans to have a total of 50 staff members based outside the UK by the end of 2019. A breakdown by country is given below.