International Development written question – answered at on 27 January 2011.
Valerie Vaz
Labour, Walsall South
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what proportion of his Department's budget for overseas projects was spent on microfinance projects for (a) both men and women and (b) women only in the last three years for which figures are available.
Stephen O'Brien
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development
The requested information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost. The Department for International Development (DFID) does not hold consolidated data on expenditure on microfinance programmes as a proportion of the total overseas aid budget. Nor does DFID hold consolidated data on expenditure on microfinance projects by gender.
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