Goods and Services

HC Deb 19 December 1995 vol 268 cc1055-6W

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much(a) the diplomatic wing of his Department and (b) the Overseas Development Administration paid to the private sector for goods and services in 1994–95. [6507]

Mr. Hanley

Excluding amounts spent on major works and on local purchases overseas, it is estimated that the diplomatic wing spent £102.4 million on goods and services supplied by the private sector in 1994–95.

ODA figures on payments made for goods and services to the private sector are not separately held, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.