Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2017 to Question 9083, what assessment he made of the potential merits of freezing funding to Adam Smith International in February 2017, in line with the decision taken by the Department for International Development.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has not awarded any new contracts to Adam Smith International (ASI) this Financial Year. However, like the Department for International Development (DFID), the FCO is continuing to work with ASI on high priority existing projects.