Speeches

Tom Watson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2014-07-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the value is of duplicate supplier payments identified by her Department since 2010; and what proportion of such payments have since been recovered in each of the last two financial years.

Lynne Featherstone

Duplicate payments to suppliers are shown in the table below.

Value

Financial Year

£ 3,721,960.01

2010/11

£ 720,052.49

2011/12

£ 1,105,217.80

2012/13

£ 5,352,323.62

2013/14

The proportion of duplicate payments recovered over the last 4 years is 98.74%.