Millions and Billions

Government Signed PFI projects list March 2006

	Data
DEPARTMENT	Count of DEPARTMENT	Sum of TOTAL CAPITAL VALUE (£m)
Cabinet Office	2	347.7
Crown Prosecution Service	1	26
DCA	14	371.4
DCMS	13	212.12
DEFRA	14	650.88
Dept for Transport	51	21955.57
DFES	144	4111.91
DoH	149	6571.96
DTI	8	180.8
DWP	11	1341
FCO	2	91
HM Treasury	2	189
Home Office	42	1186.8
MOD	55	4570.48
Northern Ireland	39	709.38
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister	65	1110.66
Scotland	93	3596.65
Wales	33	555.03
Office of Government Commerce (OGC)	1	10
HMRC	10	624.07
Grand Total	749	48412.41

"DFID works in partnership with African governments, civil society and other donors to help tackle poverty. UK assistance to Africa has doubled since 1997. We have already met our target to provide £1 billion a year in aid to Africa by 2005/6 and we are increasing steadily to reach £1.25 billion by 2007/8."

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"Experts at the London School of Economics (LSE) say costs for the national ID card scheme could rise as high as £300 per person, on top of infrastructure costs of £18bn, according to a report seen by The Observer."

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"Currently 4.8 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa die before the age of 5 every year - that is 9 deaths every minute. With one fifth of the world's births, Sub-Saharan Africa currently accounts for 45% of child deaths. Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the number of child deaths is rising. If current trends continue, there will be 5.1 million deaths in 2015 with Africa's share rising to 57% of the total.Of the 45 countries in the region, 10 countries - including Zambia, Kenya and Zimbabwe - have gone backward since 1990. Another 19 countries will miss the MDG target by more than 35 years." UNDP report

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"The Government plans departmental spending through the process of Spending Reviews, the last of which concluded in 2004 and set the Budget until 2007/08. Across the period, the Defence budget is set to increase from £29.7Bn in 2004/05 to £33.4Bn in 2007/08"

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"the cost of the wars in Iraq - in which the bulk of the money has been spent - and Afghanistan, will exceed $US300 billion so far [up to 2005] and more than $US100 billion for 2005."