House of Commons - Department for International Development Annual Report & Resource Accounts 2009-10

International Development Committee - Third Report
Department for International Development Annual Report & Resource Accounts
2009-10

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 January 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Areas of increased expenditure

The DFID CSR settlement

Fragile and conflict-affected states

Climate change

Development expenditure by other Government Departments

Research

Switching aid from bilateral to multilateral institutions

3 Making spending on aid more effective

Aid effectiveness

Reviews of bilateral, multilateral and humanitarian aid

The Aid Transparency Guarantee

The Independent Aid Watchdog

4 Running costs

Administration costs

Staffing Abercrombie House

The risks of increasing total spending while reducing running costs

Frontline staff and running costs

Use of technical cooperation

5 Conclusions

6 Appendix 1: Supplementary evidence submitted by the Department for International Development on Procurement Information

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Written Evidence

Additional unprinted Written Evidence