To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which of his Department's non-departmental public bodies have undertaken activities to influence public policy for which they engaged (a) public affairs and (b) public relations consultants in each year since 1997; and at what monetary cost in each such year.

The Department for International Development (DFID) has one non-departmental public body, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC). CSC has not, in any year since 1997, engaged public affairs or public relations consultants in activities to influence public policy.