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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Capital Modernisation Fund
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the applications made by her Department to the Captial Modernisation Fund, giving the (a) intended recipients, (b) financial value and (c) outcome of each application. [126450]
Clare Short: DFID has made one application to the Capital Modernisation Fund, which was unsuccessful. This was to meet the costs of a proposed project to implement overseas Information Communications Technology centres to serve three African communities. The cost was estimated at £850,000.
Departmental Publications
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list (a) the total number of publications issued by her Department each year since 1997, (b) how many of each were printed and (c) the total cost of each publication. [126448]
Clare Short: As part of our commitment to openness, as well as to raising awareness and understanding of development issues, we now make publicly available all our strategy documents, including all country and
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institutional strategy papers, as well as all major consultation papers and speeches. Our publishing output has therefore expanded considerably.
Due to the disproportionate cost involved we are not able to provide the full level of details requested. However within the main categories we have produced:
- 36 X Country Strategy Papers
- 10 X Institutional Strategy Papers
- 8 X Consultation Papers
- 4 X Background briefings
- 18 X Speech booklets
- 10 X Issues of Development magazine.
Costs and print runs vary from a typical strategy paper (1,500 copies costing approximately £1,500) to Developments magazine (60,000 copies costing approximately £40,000 per issue, including distribution).
Departmental Reports
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list (a) the cost and (b) number of copies printed of the Departmental report in (i) 1999 (ii) 1998 and (iii) 2000. [126443]
Clare Short: The total cost and number of copies printed of the Departmental Report are as follows:
| Year | Cost (£) | Copies printed |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 33,672 | 1,500 |
| 1999 | 65,051 | 2,500 |
| 2000 | 98,000 | 3,500 |
Zimbabwe
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list (a) the number of project completion reports received from Zimbabwe since 1 May 1997 and (b) each project that has met its objective. [126452]
Clare Short: Since 1 May 1997, 10 Zimbabwe Project Completion Reports have been received. Of these, eight (80 per cent.) were judged to have either fully or largely achieved their objectives. The following table lists the reports received, indicates their overall achievement rating and describes the rating system used.
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(1) Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, Forestry Commission
Performance Rating
Very good: Fully achieved
Satisfactory: Largely achieved despite a few shortcomings
Fair: Only partially achieved, benefits and shortcomings finely balanced
Poor: Very limited achievement, extensive shortcomings
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Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if the police project in Zimbabwe funded by her Department will meet its objective as set out in her Department's Public Service Agreement. [126457]
Clare Short: A formal review of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Organisational Development Project in October 1999 showed that it was successful in contributing to DFID's objectives as set out in the Public Service Agreement. The review concluded that the project was enabling organisational change to take place in ZRP to the benefit of the people of Zimbabwe, including the poorest.
However, since February the ZRP has not enforced the law or upheld their own charter in relation to the attacks on the opposition and the land invasions. I have therefore decided that we will continue to support police activities which directly relate to confidence building with civil society, community based organisations and human rights groups. I have also suspended the supply of Land Rovers.
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) pursuant to her answer of 12 June 2000, Official Report, columns 442-43W, on land acquisition in Zimbabwe, for what reasons she did not list (a) the number, acreage and cost of farms acquired, (b) the person to whom the farms were transferred and (c) the acreage which remains in production; [127092]
- (2) pursuant to her answer of 12 June 2000, Official Report, columns 442-43W, on Zimbabwe, if she will place in the Library a copy of the (a) ODA evaluation conducted in 1988 and (b) 1993 study carried out by the Zimbabwean Comptroller and Auditor General . [127153]
Clare Short: As I have made clear, producing the information required would involve disproportionate cost. I am happy to place a copy of the 1988 ODA evaluation report in the House of Commons Library.
The 1993 study on land reform was prepared by the office of the Zimbabwean Comptroller and Auditor General.
Overseas Staff
Mr. Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many staff and at what
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grades her Department employs in (a) Kazakhstan, (b) Uzbekistan, (c) Turkmenistan, (d) Tajikistan and (e) Kyrgyzstan. [126432]
Clare Short: Our programmes in these countries are small or non-existent and administered by Embassy staff, who are appointed by the FCO, and Staff Appointed In Country (SAIC). Details of staff and their grades for each country are as follows:
- (a) Kazakhstan
- DS9 (also covers programme in Kyrgyzstan)--70 per cent.
- DS7 (also covers programme in Kyrgyzstan)--15 per cent.
- SAIC Grade III--100 per cent.
- (b) Uzbekistan
- DS9--15 per cent.
- SAIC II--100 per cent.
- (c) Turkmenistan
- DS9--15 per cent.
- SAIC III--100 per cent.
- (d) Tajikistan
- No staff employed
- (e) Kyrgyzstan
- SAIC Grade II--100 per cent.
- SAIC Grade III--100 per cent.
My Department also employs two Assistant Professional Officers on DFID rural livelihoods activities within a World bank project.
Departmental Staff
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the total numbers of locally employed staff employed by her Department on (a) 1 May 1997 and (b) 1 May 2000. [126445]
Clare Short: Figures for locally employed staff, now known as Staff Appointed in Country (SAIC), were not collected centrally in 1997. The figure for SAIC employed by the Department on 1 May 2000 was 410.
Job Advertisements
Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list (a) the total number and (b) the total cost of job advertisements placed by her Department since 1 May 1997. [126446]
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Clare Short: The total number of advertisements and their associated costs in each of the financial years since 1997 are as follows:
| Number of advertisements | Costs (£) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997-98 | (2)313 | 991,487 |
| 1998-99 | (2)324 | 1,025,832 |
| 1999-2000 | 326 | 1,064,554 |
| 2000-01(3) | 40 | 216,435 |
| Total | 1,003 | 3,298,308 |
(2) Detailed records of the number of advertisements are not held for these years. The figures are estimates based on the actual costs which are held and other known financial information.
(3) To date
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