§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what representations she has received concerning the number of her Department's contracts whose management is available for tender to UK based non-Governmental organisations; and if she will make a statement. [64797]
§ Mr. FoulkesWe have not received any such representations.
§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list, for the latest year for which figures are available, the names of UK based non-Governmental organisations who acted as contractors24W or managers of her Department's projects, programmes and activities and the (a) number and (b) total value of contracts for each manager or contractor. [64798]
§ Mr. FoulkesThe table lists, for 1997–98, the UK based organisations registered as charities which we have been able to identify as having acted as contractors or managers of my Department's projects; the number of contracts awarded to each; and the total value:
NGO Number Total value (£) Accord 2 31,156 Action for Disability 1 30,620 ACTIONAID 2 2,294,840 Active Learning Centre 1 44,775 Association of Commonwealth Universities 1 4,919 Bentham Moxon Trust 2 37,819 British Executive Service Overseas 1 1,987 British Overseas NGOs for Development 1 20,928 Care International UK 2 10,927 Charities Aid Foundation 2 98,150 Childrens Aid Direct 1 98,332 Christian Aid 1 45,484 Education for Development 1 12,486 Fauna and Flora International 2 202,525 Hamlet Trust 1 76,936 Henry Doubleday Research Association 1 22,650 International Alert 1 12,973 International Family Health 25 604,879 International Planned Parenthood Federation 1 78,800 International Records Management Trust 8 1,549,228 International NGO Training and Research Centre 1 249,717 Intermediate Technology Development Group 1 1,442 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1 6,000 Living Earth Foundation 1 167,370 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 34 875,819 Overseas Development Institute 21 1,254,506 Oxfam 3 35,291 Population Services International 1 1,587,019 Royal Agricultural College 1 14,288 Royal Botanic Gardens 2 168,867 Save the Children Fund 5 199,343 Scottish Council for Research in Education 1 25,654 Traidcraft Exchange 2 24,000 World Wide Fund for Nature 1 13,860 Zoological Society of London 1 30,246
§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the numbers of her Department' s contracts which were available for tender to UK based managers in each year since 1994. [64799]
§ Mr. FoulkesThe following table lists the number of contracts let in the UK, from 1994–95, for which we have sought proposals. These contracts cover a wide variety of skills including management. Disaggregated figures for contracts limited to management functions, contracts with management components and contracts not available to UK consultants could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Year Number of contracts 1994–95 1,068 1995–96 1,512 1996–97 2,003 1997–98 1,995