Departmental Budget (Hansard, 23 January 2003)

HC Deb 23 January 2003 vol 398 c486W 486W

§ Dr. Tonge
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of her Department's budget remained unallocated at the end of the last financial year. [92659]

§ Clare Short
DFID's budget was fully allocated last year. Our initial budget for 2001–02 included a modest Contingency Reserve. This reserve was allocated to specific programmes during the course of the year.