Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.

In September 2012, the UK volunteered to be peer-reviewed on our policies and mechanisms to build national and community resilience to natural disasters. The review was carried out by the UN Office for Disaster Relief Reduction, the European Commission and the OECD, and funding was provided by the EU. Their report, Peer Review Report: United Kingdom, 2013: Building Resilience to Disasters, Assessing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2010) is available on the UNISDR website at http://www.unisdr.org/files/32996_32996hfaukpeerreview20131.pdf