Overseas Investment

(asked on 30th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the total value of Commonwealth Development Corporation investments was in each of the last six years in (a) private fee-paying education, (b) private fee-paying healthcare, (c) mineral extraction, (d) palm oil and related products, (e) real estate and (f) energy projects involving fossil fuels.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 6th December 2016

The following represent the total value of CDCs investments in each of the following sectors as at each year end. They are not annual investment figures

(a) private fee-paying education (total portfolio value per sector as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

Industry Group

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Education

46.1

57.2

71.5

62.2

56.6

56.9

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value

2.4

3.0

3.2

2.5

1.9

1.9

(b) private fee-paying healthcare by (total portfolio value as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

Industry

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Healthcare - Health care providers & services

44.0

45.6

50.5

66.7

104.9

117.9

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value

2.3

2.4

2.2

2.7

3.6

3.9

(c) mineral extraction by (total portfolio value as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

Industry

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Extractive industries - Metals & mining

37.2

51.0

43.3

17.7

12.2

9.3

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value

1.9

2.7

1.9

0.7

0.4

0.3

(d) palm oil and related products (total portfolio value as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

PQ Type

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Palm Oil

8.8

2.0

1.7

9.8

6.0

20.4

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value

0.5

0.1

0.1

0.4

0.2

0.7

(e) real estate (total portfolio value as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

Industry Group

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Real Estate

117.5

149.6

147.2

166.5

154.3

147.7

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value

6.1

7.8

6.6

6.6

5.3

4.9

(f) energy projects (total portfolio value as at year end)

GBP Value £m

Period

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Fossil Fuel

81.5

105.5

107.0

145.7

274.4

250.0

Total portfolio value

1933.2

1913.3

2246

2504.2

2926.3

2999.2

% of total portfolio value (fossil fuels)

4.2

5.5

4.8

5.8

9.4

8.3

CDC has no investments in coal fired power projects.

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