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date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on (a) equipment and goods and (b) consultancy from UK companies in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	7252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>In line with the UK Government commitments to increase transparency, DFID publishes details of types of contract award and spend transactions over £500 on a monthly basis. This includes expenditure at supplier level and the amount for project and Consultancy services. This information can be accessed for spend on the .Gov portal and for contracts on the Contracts finder website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>British taxpayers expect all ODA to be high quality and well-targeted, and since 2010, value for money and transparency of UK official development assistance (ODA) has been a top priority for DFID. In the last 5 years, DFID has worked hard to make its systems and processes more rigorous to make sure that aid projects reach intended beneficiaries and deliver results, including introducing greater ministerial oversight and new spending controls. Business cases and delivery plans are used for all DFID projects setting out the rationale for the projects and how they will be implemented. Formal project reviews are required annually and at completion against a performance monitoring framework. These reviews assess and record that funds have been used for their intended purposes and what results have been delivered. DFID has also reduced the number of bilateral country programmes since 2010. Finally, DFID has introduced greater transparency and scrutiny of DFID’s work through setting up the aid watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, which scrutinises everything DFID does, alongside the work of the International Development Select Committee.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 20/07/2015 16:38:00 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

390415

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Audit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent independent audit there has been of the effectiveness of her Department's disbursement of services.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	7485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The National Audit Office, the principal state audit body in the United Kingdom, provides independent external audit of DFID’s spending, including carrying out value for money and other effectiveness reviews. DFID’s Annual Report and Accounts are also subject to audit by the National Audit Office. The Comptroller and Auditor General signed DFID’s 2014–15 Annual Report and Accounts on 9 July 2015 and issued an unqualified audit opinion. Rigorous independent scrutiny of the effectiveness of DFID’s work is also provided by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact which reports to the International Development Select Committee in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID’s internal audit department provides assurance over governance, risk management and control systems through a programme of audits which cover DFID processes, departments and projects. In 2014-15 the Secretary of State significantly scaled up internal audit and counter fraud resources to strengthen internal capacity and skills, increase the depth and breadth of assurance coverage, and ensure that all DFID country offices are audited at least every other year. At a programme level, all organisations which receive funding from DFID are required to provide evidence about the use of funds, including providing independently audited financial statements to our programme managers.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 20/07/2015 16:34:56 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson