Departments: Public Private Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding his Department provided to the public-private infrastructure advisory facility in each year since its inception. (154398)

DFID has supported the public private infrastructure advisory facility (PPIAF) over three phases since its inception in 1999. Our total commitment to PPIAF from 1999 to 2008 is £53.3 million, broken down annually as follows:

	£
1998-99	1,450,000
1999-2000	3,200,000
2000-01	5,895,287
2001-02	3,598,848
2002-03	8,209,761
2003-04	7,179,905
2004-05	6,525,733
2005-06	2,804,781
2006-07	7,487,555

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007