Departmental Accountancy

Mr. Clifton-Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many staff were employed by his Department’s Internal Audit Department in each financial year since 1997-98.

Mr. Douglas Alexander
The Department for International Development’s (DFID) Internal Audit Department (IAD) employed the following numbers of staff from 2004-05 onwards:

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|                 |Number|
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|2004-05          |16    |
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|2005-06          |17    |
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|2006-07          |18    |
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|2007-08          |15    |
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|2008-09 (to date)|17    |
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IAD also supplements its in-house resources through using external consultants to deliver or support certain internal audit assignments.

Staff numbers are not available by Department within DFID for financial years prior to 2004-05 when a new human resources database was introduced.