House of Commons - Department for International Development's Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12

International Development Committee - Ninth Report
Department for International Development's Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12

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 22 January 2013.

Contents

The UK's Official Development Assistance: key developments

Increased spending at the end of 2011

Rescheduling payments from 2012 into 2011

Spending the increase in budget in a cost-effective manner

The establishment of a development bank

Increase in spending on multilaterals and reduction in aid to recipient governments

The decline in budget support

Obstacles to making more use of NGOs

DFID's increasing spending through multilateral organisations

The switch of non-humanitarian bilateral aid from low income to middle income countries

The Department's spending by its development policy priorities - 'pillars'

Research

Prioritising and commissioning research

Making good use of research

3 Costs and staffing

Operating costs

Front-line delivery costs: front-line staff

Trends in staffing

Advisers

The Department's staffing of country offices

UK-based staff

Staff appointed in country

DFID's use of consultants

Administration costs

Costs associated with the location of staff

The distribution of staff between London and East Kilbride

The London accommodation move

Security costs

Administrative staff costs

Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix 1 - Multilateral Administrative Costs

Appendix 2 - Multilateral Administrative Trends

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

11 December 2012

Written Evidence

Additional Written Evidence