Aside from giving aid to countries with their own nuclear weapons and space program's another needy bunch are being supported by the government in times of need.
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The spending on “technical and advisory services” by the Government increased from £31.7million in September last year to £45.9million the next month.
Miss Greening launched the investigation after it emerged that nearly £500 million was paid to firms working on Third World programmes.
They show that PricewaterhouseCoopers was paid more than £4million in October alone, while Adam Smith International received £5.8million.
Large payments also went to a number of major foreign consultancies, such as the USbased ABT Associates, which was paid £2.1million.
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