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Uganda: Money

Volume 471: debated on Friday 1 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what currency transactions over the value of £25,000 have been made by his Department where pounds sterling were changed into local currency in Uganda in the last six months. (178630)

Over the past six months the DFID Uganda office has made four transactions above the value of £25,000 where money, received in Uganda in US dollars from the Department’s headquarters in the UK, was converted to Uganda shillings in-country.

US dollars ($) transformed to shillings

Equivalent in £

Exchange rate ($ to shs.)

Commission1

August

200,000

98,080.01

1,650

0

September

200,000

99,642.31

1,755

0

October

200,000

97,148

1,727

0

November

300,000

143,929.2

1,675

0

1 DFID Uganda has negotiated with its bankers not to charge commission on any of its transactions as we do not receive interest from the money in its accounts.