HC Deb 22 February 1999 vol 326 cc12-3W
Mr. Ruffley

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the services that KPMG have performed for his Department(a) since 1 May 1997 and (b) in the corresponding period prior to 1 May 1997, indicating the remuneration made in each case. [72015]

Clare Short

Since 1 May 1997 DFID has awarded KPMG 27 contracts for services. In the corresponding period prior to 1 May 1997 KPMG were awarded 31 contracts. The tables show the project title, the country to which the contract applies, and the total value of the contract.

a) Contracts awarded to KPMG since 1 May 1997
Project title Country Value (£)
Country policy plan: strategic review Anguilla 29,420
Institutional appraisal and strategic review of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force St. Lucia 34,175
Support of restructuring of Russian private enterprise Russia 168,650
Institutional appraisal and strategic review of the Royal Grenada Police Force Grenada 30,600
Financial advice for United Nations Relief and Works Agency West Bank and Gaza 207,124
Public service pay reform in Uganda Uganda 128,303

b) Contracts awarded by DF1D to KPMG in the corresponding period prior to 1 May 1997
Project title Country Value (£)
Spares management study India 37,000
Assistance to Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue South Africa, Republic of 12,950
Enterprise Development Review: consultancy team Swaziland 58,000
Personnel and training specialist St. Kitts-Nevis 95,050
Public service development project Grenada 208,900
Restructuring of electricity sector Ukraine 84,960
Review of the media sector Ethiopia 49,090
Aden free zone project Yemen, Republic of 89,487
Assistance in insurance supervision Poland 38,250
Guyana forestry commission—human resources development study Guyana 49,920
Good government project identification mission Mexico 22,000
District primary education West Bengal—institutional consultants India 33,920
Restructuring of electricity sector Ukraine 382,885
Presidential review commission South Africa, Republic of 24,050
Job Evaluation and Grading Project South Africa, Republic of 498,500
Uganda—Mildmay Palliative care centre Uganda 16,141
Good government programme Mexico 22,060
Audit of agricultural bank Armenia 185,358
Zahony enterprise zone—technical assistance to coordination committee Hungary 89,008
Efficiency unit project Colombia 184,988
Civil service reform consultancy Malawi 144,875
Assistance to the public service salaries review Lesotho 64,546
Good government—focus on results Mexico 175,808
Administrative assistance to Eastern Cape South Africa, Republic of 33,804
Strengthening Government finance and accounting functions Kenya 88,180
Assistance on rating of insurance companies Russia 49,671
Public sector development: resource allocation review Montserrat 245,845
Assistance to review United Nations Relief and Works budget management system; West Bank and Gaza 25,238
Jamaica: agency development project Jamaica 1,999,480
Russia—petroleum fiscal reform Russia 941,769
Review of support to general sales tax Pakistan 18,911

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