To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2007, Official Report, column 153W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, if he will place in the Library copies of the last three studies by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit on the effect of humanitarian and development programmes in Afghanistan. (170410)

The last three studies by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit on the impact of humanitarian and development programmes are:

1. Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police, by Andrew Wilder

2. A Matter of Interests: Gender and the Politics of Presence in Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga, by Anna Wordsworth

3. Finding the Money: Informal Credit practices in Rural Afghanistan, by Floortje Klijn and Adam pain

Copies of these studies will be placed in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 26 November 2007, Official Report, column 153W, on Afghanistan: reconstruction, if he will (a) place in the Library a copy of his Department's funded study by the Peace Dividend Trust and (b) state how many Peace Dividend Trust studies relating to Afghanistan his Department has funded. (170411)

A copy of the DFID-funded Peace Dividend Trust study ‘Afghan Compact Procurement Monitoring' will be placed in the Library of the House.

We have not funded the Peace Dividend Trust to produce any further studies relating to Afghanistan.