International Development written question – answered at on 31 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many civil servants were (a) directly and (b) otherwise employed by non-departmental public bodies for which his Department is responsible (i) in 2000, (ii) in 2005, (iii) in 2007, (iv) in 2010 and (v) on the most recent date for which figures are available.
The Department for International Development currently has two non-departmental public bodies, one of which has employed civil servants directly since May 2011:
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission has never had any civil servants either directly or otherwise employed.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) was put in place as a shadow operation in October 2010 and became fully operational only in May 2011. ICAI currently has four civil servant employees.
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