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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Adam Smith Institute

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what work his Department has commissioned from the Adam Smith Institute in the last five years; and how much each of these projects cost. [146938]

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Hilary Benn: Pursuant to the response given to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetlands on 12 January 2004, Official Report, column 518W which gave the figures for the original value of contracts awarded to Adam Smith International Ltd. The following table sets

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out the current value of these contracts, made up of the original value plus any increases or extensions since. All contracts with Adam Smith International Ltd. have been awarded and managed in line with DFID's standard procurement procedures.

	Project title	Current value (£) (original contract value plus cost of any increases or extensions)	Country
1999	PR Unit Support for Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC)	430,625	Tanzania
1999	Privatisation Project Phase 3 and 4 Managing Consultant	1,718,736	Guyana
1999	Privatisation Agency Support Project Consultancy	560,752	Zimbabwe
1999	Technical Assistance for Public Enterprise Reform in Orissa	3,667,571	India
1999	Assistance to the Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Department	9,131,555	West Bank and Gaza
1999	Additional Support to the Privatisation Board	106,241	Bangladesh
1999	UK-Ireland Privatisation and Regulation Study Tour	11,145	Tanzania
1999	Medium Term Programme of Capacity Building for PURC	1,559,960	Ghana
1999	Initital Support to the Budgetary Processes of the Government of Macedonia	44,315	Macedonia
2000	Rehabilitation of Cyclone Damaged Lift Irrigation Points in Orissa	1,296,327	India
2000	Seminar on Export Credits and Developing Countries	102,594	United Kingdom
2000	Lead Adviser to Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSCR)	229,966	Tanzania
2000	Russia Trade Policy Project	1,199,986	Russia
2001	Conference on Disinvestment	70,000	India
2001	Support for Public Sector Undertaking Reforms & Social Safety Net in Madhya Pradesh	80,000	India
2001	PSCR: Water Privatisation and Regulation Study Tour	54,924	Tanzania
2001	Communications Film for Department of Disinvestment	89,500	India
2001	Consultants for Standards, Technical Regulatory Barriers Programme	92,870	Global (non project specific)
2002	Trade Training for DFID Staff	20,075	United Kingdom
2002	Pilot Training and Capacity Building in International Watercourse Law	151,008	Kyrgyz Republic
2002	Trade Training for DFID Staff—Bangkok	32,328	United Kingdom
2002	Support for Capacity-building in the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank	3,277,815	Afghanistan
2003	Support Services for Public Enterprise Restructuring in South Africa	6,363,435	South Africa, Republic of
2003	Support to Water Sector Regulation by PURC—Ghana	1,079,100	Ghana
2003	Andhra Pradesh Economic Restructuring Programme—Public Enterprise Reforms, Phase II	416,435	India
2003	Economic Support within 1st Military Division HQ Basra.	55,510	Iraq
2003	Economic Development within 1st Military Division HQ Basra.	119,848	Iraq
2003	Support to the Office of the Prime Minister and to the Cabinet Office.	100,400	West Bank and Gaza
2003	ITD—DFID Staff Training	288,685	Global (non project specific)
2003	Asia Trade Consultancy	44,200	United Kingdom
2003	International Lawyer within 1st Military Division HQ Basra.	131,868	Iraq
2003	Economic Support to Coalition Provisional Authority South (CPAS)	111,255	Iraq
2003	Secondment of Negotiations Support Staff to the Office of Prime Minister.	75,800	West Bank and Gaza
	Legal Adviser within Coalition Provisional Authority South (CPAS)	72,925	Iraq

Note:

DFID contracts have been subject to untied international competition since 2001, using the EU Public Procurement Regulations.

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to his answer of 12 January 2004, Official Report, column 518W, on the Adam Smith Institute, how much his Department has spent on work undertaken by the Adam Smith Institute in each of the last 10 years. [148671]

Hilary Benn: Information on payments is only available for the last six years. Payments to Adam Smith International Ltd. were as follows:

Adam Smith International Ltd.

	£
1998	1,547,082.92
1999	3,494,546.98
2000	5,450,964.35
2001	9,612,801.56
2002	7,050,473.82
2003	7,289,363.19

The above does not include payment data for any lower value locally let contracts. This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what outcomes have been monitored arising from contracted services provided to his Department by the Adam Smith Institute and its subsidiaries. [146959]

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Hilary Benn: All DFID projects are monitored to ensure contracted services make the intended contribution to project outcomes. We have not made special arrangements for consultancy advice from Adam Smith International Ltd.

Advertising and Information

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much (a) his Department and (b) each agency and non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department has spent on (i) advertising and (ii) information campaigns in each year from 1995–96 to 2003–04 (estimated); and if he will make a statement. [149621]

Hilary Benn: Our expenditure on Publicity, which forms a part of our effort to raise development awareness and understanding of international development issues in the UK, has been as follows:

Year	£
1995–96	568,775
1996–97	579,916
1999–99	399,755
1999–2000	674,531
2000–01	1,484,281
2001–02	1,286,053
2002–03	(4)1,300,000
2003–04	(5)850,000

⁽⁴⁾Estimate

⁽⁵⁾Provisional forecast figure

We do not hold a separate advertising budget, The majority of advertising relates to recruitment advertising in newspapers and journals. Figures for the four calendar years are as follows:

Year	Number
2000	751,972
2001	1,208,191
2002	914,571
2003	871,246

Afghanistan

Joan Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many refugees have returned to Afghanistan from refugee camps in (a) Iran and (b) Pakistan; and how many remain. [150648]

Hilary Benn: At the beginning of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR's) repatriation programme in April 2002, UNHCR's estimate of the Afghan refugee caseload in Iran was 1.5 million. Since then, over 500,000 people have returned to Afghanistan. Only five per cent. of these are believed to have originated in camps.

In Pakistan, the refugee caseload was estimated at 3.5 million in March 2002. Over 1.5 million were repatriated in 2002 and over 300,000 returned in 2003. The bulk of returnees so far, has consisted of refugees living in urban areas rather than camps. The 1.5 million remaining in Pakistan almost all live in camps.

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Joan Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many Afghans in refugee camps belong to women-headed households. [150649]

Hilary Benn: The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as yet have no specific figures for the number of Afghans in refugee camps belonging to women-headed households. The most detailed information they can currently offer is that approximately 50 to 60 per cent. of refugees in camps in Pakistan are women and that five to 10 per cent. of these are of adult age. In Iran, only five per cent. of refugees live in camps, and of these, only 38 per cent. are women.

UNHCR, however, anticipate that more detailed information will become available over the next year. Elections in Afghanistan are planned for June 2004 and UNHCR is currently discussing ways to carry out voter registration for Afghan refugees with the Government of Pakistan and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). This should start to shed more light on the make-up of the refugee population. UNHCR also has plans for a separate census, which the Government of Pakistan have asked them to carry out in order to get a better picture of the remaining refugee caseload in Pakistan. It is expected that this will be carried out after voter registration of refugees to avoid confusion. UNHCR believes this will provide an insight, among other things, into the number of women-headed households and their dependents.

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