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Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much his Department spent on upgrading its IT in each of the last three financial years. [228419]

Mr. Douglas Alexander: The information required cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.

Departmental NDPBs

Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding has been agreed with each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies for the period 2008 to 2011. [228657]

Mr. Michael Foster: The Department for International Development (DFID) has one non-departmental public body, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (CSC). The CSC reports annually to Parliament through the Secretary of State for International Development. Copies of its report are placed in the Library of the House.

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Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the (a) budget and (b) staff level of his Department's (i) Corporate Performance Division and each of its subdivisions, (ii) Policy and Research Division and each of its subdivisions, (iii) International Division and each of its subdivisions and (iv) Country Programmes Division and each of its subdivisions (A) was in each of the last three years and (B) is projected to be in each of the next three years. [225579]

Mr. Douglas Alexander: Table 1 details the staffing levels for home civil service staff and staff appointed in country for each of DFID's division and subdivisions.
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The figures from 2006 to 2008 show the numbers of full-time equivalent staff as at end of March for each of those years. Part-time staff are counted according to the percentage of full-time hours worked. Projected staffing levels are shown for March 2011. This is currently being reviewed.

Table 2 details budget planning levels from 2005-06 to 2010-11. Final divisional allocations for 2008-09 to 2010-11 will be subject to further revision based on operational demands of the government's aid programme.

Various divisional restructures have occurred over the last three years and both tables are mapped as closely as possible to the most up-to-date current reporting structures.

Table 1 :DFID actual staff in post (full-time equivalent) levels by division for 2006 to 2008; plus projections of staff levels for 2009 to 2011
	March 2006			March 2007			March 2008			Projection of total posts for March 2011
Division	HCS	SAIC	Total	HCS	SAIC	Total	HCS	SAIC	Total	HCS	SAIC	Total
Corporate performance
Business Solutions	87	0	87	83	5	88	84	9	93	100	19	119
Communications	131	0	131	81	0	81	69	0	69	96	0	96
Finance and Corporate Performance	210	0	210	218	0	218	188	2	190	137	4	141
Human Resources	242	0	242	215	0	215	196	0	196	176	12	188
Sub totals	670	0	670	597	5	602	537	11	548	509	35	544
Policy and research
Policy and research	222	0	222	224	0	224	210	0	210	195	0	195
Sub totals	222	0	222	224	0	224	210	0	210	195	0	195
International
Europe and donor relations division	(1)—	(1)—	(1)—	60	0	60	74	v0	74	91	0	91
International finance and development effectiveness	62	0	62	59	0	59	56	0	56	63	0	63
United Nations, conflict and humanitarian	104	3	107	105	7	112	96	8	104	103	5	108
Sub totals	166	3	169	224	7	171	226	8	234	257	5	262
Country programmes
Africa	303	448	751	294	412	706	264	400	664	237	366	603
Europe, middle east, Americas central and east Asia	161	118	279	154	111	265	177	177	354	143	113	256
South Asia	180	362	542	166	325	491	120	227	347	113	228	341
Sub totals	644	928	1572	614	848	1,462	561	804	1,365	493	707	1,200
Sub-division (not included in above divisions)
Seconded from	33	1	34	2	0	2	6	0	6	0	0	0
Top management group	36	0	36	30	0	30	40	1	41	42	0	42
Unallocated	30	0	30	28	5	33	32	10	42	0	0	0
Sub totals	99	1	100	60	5	65	78	11	89	42	0	42
Grand totals	1,801	932	2,733	1,719	865	2,524	1,612	834	2,446	1,496	747	2,243
(1 )Division did not exist at March 2006

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