§ 13. Mr. McWalterTo ask the Secretary of State, Department for International Development what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the support given by British engineers working on behalf of the Department in Mozambique since the 2001 floods; and if he will make a statement. [144418]
§ Hilary BennSeveral British engineering companies are active in Mozambique including for example Roughtons, Scott Wilson, and WSP.
DFID has assisted the Mozambique Government both through support to the general budget and to specific flood-recovery projects. An example of the latter is a £7.4 million project to repair the main national road crossing the Limpopo valley which was washed away in the floods. Engineering consultants are contracted for post-flood recovery work by the Government of Mozambique under international tenders, and British companies have taken up many of these contracts.
British companies have also been involved in post-flood recovery projects funded by the EC, to which the UK Government makes a significant financial contribution.