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1143413

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 25 July 2019 to Question 280367 and 17 July 2019 to Question 276193 and with reference to the findings of the independent assessment commissioned by the Joint Funds Unit which identified areas where the process could be improved, what specific recommendations were made for improving the Overseas Security and Justice Assistance process.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	284923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/09/2019 16:42:14 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1140809

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the recommendations of the independent assessment commissioned by the Joint Funds Unit of Overseas Security and Justice Assistance policy were.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	280367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Pursuant to my answer to Question 276193, the audit’s findings highlighted the importance of context, and areas where the process could be improved. The audit showed that the majority of programme teams have a good understanding of the human rights risks facing their programmes, and a realistic view of the extent to which risks can be mitigated.</p><p>Responding to the audit’s recommendations, the JFU is updating CSSF programmatic guidance, and the Stabilisation Unit is updating its core security and justice training for HMG staff to align with the revised guidance.</p><p>As stated in my answer to Question 249954, there are no plans to publish the OSJA audit.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 25/07/2019 10:39:04 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1138502

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 249954, if the Government will publish the recommendations of the Joint Funds Unit audit of Overseas Security and Justice Assistance; what steps have been taken in response to the recommendations of that audit; who was responsible for conducting that audit; and what the cost was to the public purse of that audit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	276193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office lead HMG policy on the Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Guidance. The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) takes its responsibility to do no harm seriously. At the direction of the Joint Funds Unit (JFU), the Stabilisation Unit (SU) commissioned Palladium, a SU provider, to undertake an audit of OSJAs across CSSF programmes, at a cost of £31,801.64. <br> <br>The audit showed that the majority of programme teams have a good understanding of the human rights risks their programmes are operating in, and a realistic view of the extent to which risks can be mitigated. The audit’s findings also highlighted areas where the process could be improved.</p><p>In response to the audit’s recommendations, the JFU is updating CSSF programmatic guidance and the Stabilisation Unit is also updating its core security and justice training for HMG staff to align with the revised guidance.</p><p>As the Government stated in its response to Question 249954, there are no plans to publish the OSJA audit.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 17/07/2019 15:06:08 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1124208

registered interest
date	01/05/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the findings of the independent Overseas Security and Justice Assistance audit into the Conflict Stability and Security Fund commissioned by the Joint Funds Unit.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	249954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) takes its responsibility to do no harm very seriously. All CSSF programmes comply with the UK’s domestic and international human rights obligations and have robust measures in place to protect the human rights of beneficiaries.</p><p> </p><p>In order for programme teams to be able to assess the risks of UK activity that could affect human rights, all security and justice assistance is subject to Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJAs). The OSJA is a risk management system used across Government to assess risk and consider what mitigation might be appropriate. The OSJA Guidance specifies at what point Ministerial approval is required.</p><p> </p><p>In order to determine the effectiveness of project activity, all CSSF programmes are subject to Annual Reviews, which score how effectively programmes have delivered their outputs and outcomes. In making an assessment the Annual Review considers how programme teams manage commercial partnerships, risk and budgets, adapt to changing contexts, , as well as assessing value for money. The Joint Funds Unit (JFU) plans to publish the Rule of Law 2017/18 Annual Review summary before the end of this Parliamentary session.</p><p> </p><p>Minister Field, the FCO Minister responsible for South Asia, receives regular updates on the risks associated with the Rule of Law programme’s activities. In addition, I reviewed all the relevant programme documentation ahead of it being shared with the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, who have taken an interest in this programme and requested further, sensitive documents on it.</p><p> </p><p>The OSJA covering the Counter-Terrorism Associated Prosecutorial Reforms Initiative was fully reviewed in December 2018. Completed OSJA checklists are sensitive internal documents providing an assessment of the human rights situation in a country at a given time and are regularly updated. These are not published. The Information Commissioner has previously reviewed and agreed with a Government decision not to disclose an OSJA on Pakistan.</p><p> </p><p>Last year the JFU commissioned an independent OSJA audit, in order to get a better understanding of how they are used across the CSSF. The audit itself contains a number of sensitive in-depth samples of OSJAs and therefore there are no plans to publish the audit.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 13/05/2019 09:04:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1123429

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his oral contribution to the November hearing of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, that he could absolutely provide assurance that money from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is not being used to fund activities that might lead to the death of people in other countries, what assessment he has made of whether reports of the use of that funding for specialist anti-terror courts in Pakistan is incompatible with his statement.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	247981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) takes its responsibility to do no harm very seriously. All CSSF programmes comply with the UK’s domestic and international human rights obligations and have robust measures in place to protect the human rights of beneficiaries.</p><p> </p><p>CSSF programmes in Pakistan have supported the reform of the criminal justice system, including the investigation and prosecution of serious crimes, in a manner compliant with human rights. For all security and justice programmes, Overseas Security and Justice Assessments (OSJAs) are used as an additional risk management process to assess and to mitigate human rights risks. OSJAs are specifically designed to improve human rights standards and strengthen the rule of law in partner countries. They also help to guide decision makers and Ministers on how to provide security assistance overseas while managing the consequences for human rights.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon friend, the FCO Minister responsible for South Asia, receives regular updates on the risks associated with the Rule of Law programme’s activities. In addition, I have seen the independent OSJA audit, which included an overview of the Pakistan Rule of Law programme, and am confident that activities have been delivered in a way that is consistent with the UK’s opposition to the death penalty</p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 01/05/2019 09:19:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1110387

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he is making on improving the transparency of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	242140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The CSSF has now published two Annual Reports, 83 programme summaries for 2018/19 (in addition to the 62 programme summaries published for 2017/18) and 64 Annual Review summaries for 2017/18 (in addition to the 49 published for 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>The CSSF is working towards meeting a “good” International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) rating by 2020 in line with the government’s commitment. There is a presumption to publish programme information for all CSSF programmes, and for 2018/19 83 out of our 90 programmes, had programme summaries published. The two key reasons why we may not be able to make programme documentation public are to protect national security and to protect the safety and security of beneficiaries, partners and partner governments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727383/CSSF_Annual_Report_2017_to_2018.pdf" target="_blank">Annual Report</a> and programme summaries took on many of the suggestions received from stakeholders in the development sector. The Annual Report included a chapter on spend with break downs by ODA and non-ODA, department, region, theme and discretionary and non-discretionary budgets. In addition, Programme summaries broke down project spend by ODA/non-ODA splits.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working to publish more Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend information on Devtracker. We have published data for all FCO and DFID CSSF programmes for the last six quarters and are currently working on the next quarter.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/04/2019 10:15:47 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1087054

registered interest
date	12/03/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Joint Funds Unit will (a) conduct and (b) publish regular reviews of Conflict, Security and Stability Fund programmes for which information is not publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	231399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>All programmes are subject to Annual Reviews, which assess a number of technical and programme management standards including financial and risk management, value for money, conflict and gender sensitivity, as well as contextual factors such as changes to the political environment.</p><p> </p><p>The JFU is working hard to increase transparency and there is a presumption to publish. We have now published two Annual Reports, 76 programme summaries for 2018/19 (in addition to the 62 programme summaries published for 2017/18) and 42 Annual Review summaries for 2016/17. We are due to publish 64 Annual Review summaries for 2017/18 reviews, shortly.</p><p>Due to the highly sensitive nature of some of the CSSF’s work, it is not possible to publish details of all programmes. The two key reasons why it may not be possible to make programme documentation public are to protect national security and to protect the safety and security of beneficiaries, partners and partner Governments.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/03/2019 14:14:43 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1084442

registered interest
date	08/03/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has for publication of Conflict, Security and Stability Fund programme summaries up to the end of July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	230069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The CSSF has published programme summaries for financial years 2017/18 and 2018/19 on <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> .</p><p> </p><p>In November 2018, 76 CSSF programme summaries for 2018/19 programmes were published and a further seven programme summaries are due to be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The CSSF continues to work towards greater transparency and the programme summaries for 2019/20 will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 13/03/2019 09:43:02 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1054646

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the amount of funding over £50,000 allocated to country programmes under the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	216181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is responsible for both the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) and Prosperity Fund overall.</p><p> </p><p>CSSF and Prosperity Fund ODA programme spend is also detailed on <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Devtracker</a> and year end ODA spend is detailed by project level via the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics" target="_blank">Statistics on International Development</a>, which is published annually in November for the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>The Prosperity Fund Annual Report provides details of the total spend by programme for the previous financial year. The Annual Report for 2018/19 will be published later this year. Information on Prosperity Fund ODA eligible programme spend is published regularly on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fco-prosperity-fund-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fco-prosperity-fund-spend</a></p><p> </p><p>The CSSF has published programme summaries, which outline the programme’s funding allocation (split by Official Development Assistance (ODA)/non-ODA), objectives and project level activities for 2018/19 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>The CSSF Annual Report provides details of the CSSF’s total spend and breaks down by region and thematic area. The Annual Report for 2018/19 will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 11/02/2019 10:29:24 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1052443

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the (a) amount of money contributed and (b) recipients of such funding of his Department's contributions in excess of £10,000 to (a) conflict prevention, (b) early warning (c) crisis management, (d) conflict resolution or peacemaking through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	215563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office is responsible for both the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) and Prosperity Fund overall.</p><p> </p><p>CSSF and Prosperity Fund ODA programme spend is also detailed on <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Devtracker</a> and year end ODA spend is detailed by project level via the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics" target="_blank">Statistics on International Development</a>, which is published annually in November for the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>The Prosperity Fund Annual Report provides details of the total spend by programme for the previous financial year. The Annual Report for 2018/19 will be published later this year. <strong> </strong>Information on Prosperity Fund ODA eligible programme spend is published regularly on gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fco-prosperity-fund-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-oda-fco-prosperity-fund-spend</a></p><p> </p><p>The CSSF has published programme summaries, which outline the programme’s funding allocation (split by Official Development Assistance (ODA)/non-ODA), objectives and project level activities for 2018/19 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>The CSSF Annual Report provides details of the CSSF’s total spend and breaks down by region and thematic area. The Annual Report for 2018/19 will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 08/02/2019 13:09:57 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman