Written question asked by John Bercow (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 June 2004. It was answered by Hilary Benn (Labour) on Thursday, 24 June 2004 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Dept for International Development

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people employed by his Department have worked on harm reduction programmes (a) for and (b) in the Russian Federation.

Answer: Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many people employed by his Department have worked on harm reduction programmes (a) for and (b) in the Russian Federation. [179936] Hilary Benn: DFID currently employs nine staff which are involved in our work on HIV/AIDS, including managing harm reduction activities, in Russia. Eight are based in the DFID--Russia office in Moscow, one in London. Five are administrators, four are advisers. Also, over the last five years DFID has employed three Consultancy Companies involving 16 individual experts on four harm reduction projects.

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