Public Expenditure
International Development
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development with reference to the speech by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury of 23 April 2012 at the Institute for Fiscal Studies,
(1)
what progress his Department has made on identifying a proportion of
its resource budget that can be re-prioritised; what steps he has taken
to identify such funds; and which parts of his Department's resource
budget he has identified as suitable for re-prioritisation;
(2)
what discussions he has had with his Department's agencies and the
non-departmental bodies for which he is responsible on the contribution
they will make to identifying resource budget for possible
re-prioritisation;
(3)
when he will make public the areas of his Department's resource budget
he has identified for possible re-prioritisation; and when he plans to
report to the International Development Select Committee on the outcome of this exercise.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
DFID
is working with the Treasury to agree contingency plans as set out in
the Improving Spending Control document. This can be found at:
Plans
and options for re-prioritisation will not be published. They should be
"live" plans that are reassessed and updated on an ongoing basis.
