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Written question asked by Baroness Northover (Liberal Democrat), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Tunnicliffe (Labour) on Monday, 9 March 2009.

Department for International Development: DEL

Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Statement by Lord Tunnicliffe on 12 February on the Department for International Development's departmental expenditure limit (WS 82-83), whichof the projects in the other departments to which Department for International Development funding has been transferred are new and which were already in those departments' plans; and, of the latter, how they were intended to be funded.
Answer

£1,650,000 transferred to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is for existing projects in connection with the 2012 Olympics relating to the development of sport in developing countries, which were always intended to be part-funded by the Department for International Development (DfID). £300,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of payments to locally engaged staff in Iraq is to cover the costs of DfID's locally engaged (LE) Iraqi staff under the HMG assistance scheme outlined by the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in a Written Ministerial Statement on 30 October 2007 (Official Report, col. WS 91). As an employer, DfID has approximately 40 former Iraqi staff who may be eligible under this scheme. We have judged that the best way for DfID to make payments to these staff is through the system the MoD has set up to do this. £1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in respect of the returns and reintegration fund is for an existing project that was always intended to be part-funded by DfID. £5,000 transferred to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in respect of the skills strategy for government project is a new cross-government project being funded by all government departments. £6,716,000 transferred to the FCO, and £18,899,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence, in respect of the Conflict Prevention Pool (CPP), is the allocation of the remaining CPP funds for 2008-09. CPP resources are voted in the first instance to DfID as the financial manager for the overall CPP, but management of the specific projects is shared between departments. The spring supplementaries are used to transfer funds to the MoD and FCO in line with their project spend. Of a budget of £112 million in 2008-09, the MoD will spend approximately 40 per cent, the FCO 30 per cent, and DfID 30 per cent. £216,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a conflict pool project in Ghana relates to the observation of a run-off election held on 29 December, and is a new project. £917,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of stabilisation aid fund projects in Iraq is the partial return of funds transferred to DfID from the MoD earlier in 2008-09, due to changes in forecasted spend on the projects. £1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a police reform project in Pakistan is a new project.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
1587; 708 c199-200WA
Session
2008-09
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