Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when the evaluation contract for the Commonwealth Development Corporation Group outlined in the 2015 business case for recapitalisation will be set.

In addition to independent evaluations of CDC’s impact that have been and will be undertaken, DFID are currently in the design stages of a complex new fifteen-year study to generate more detailed longitudinal data on the development impacts of CDC investments. We are the first Government ever to conduct such an in-depth study into their development finance institution. In order to assure we get the best value for money, this study will go through a comprehensive and competitive tendering process. It is anticipated that this study be tendered for in the first half of 2017.