Ethiopia: Foreign Exchange

Mr. Scott
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what currency transactions over the value of £25,000 have been made by his Department involving changing pounds sterling into local currency in Ethiopia in the last six months.

Mr. Thomas
In the last six months DFID Ethiopia has made the following transfers from sterling into Ethiopian birr:

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|Date          |Value     |
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|27 July 2007  |250,627.57|
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|8 October 2007|250,000.00|
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