Disclosure of Information
International Development
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development
how much his Department spent on the updating of published data in line
with the Government's transparency agenda in each month since September
2011.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
Estimated annual DFID costs for production of its datasets including estimated staff costs for 2011-12 were:
£146,067 for standard data sets (produced by all Government Departments), averaging £12,172 per month; and
£63,873 for aid data sets (DFID only), averaging £5,322 per month.