Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the salary and other costs associated with the post of Senior External Communications Officer for Scotland and other devolved administrations, reference 1456639, will be counted towards the Government's target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNI on Overseas Development Assistance.

The salary for this role will come from the DFID administration budget, which counts towards the Government’s target spending of 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) on Overseas Development Assistance.

DFID has some of the lowest overheads of all Whitehall departments, and also has low administration costs in comparison to other development organisations — at around 2.5% of DFID's overall budget.