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392034

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Aviation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the first commercial flights to St Helena will commence.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The first commercial flight to St Helena will be in February 2016, subject to completion of the remaining airport construction works and to meeting all regulatory requirements.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:12 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392035

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many tourist beds (1) are currently available, and (2) are under construction, on St Helena.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government confirms that 101 tourist beds are currently available in serviced rooms, with an additional 38 serviced rooms planned for construction between 2015 and 2016. There are also 90 self-catering rooms on the island.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:27 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392036

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many tourist beds will be required on St Helena to support one weekly flight when the island’s airport opens in February 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government estimates that 80 to 160 tourist beds will be required when the air service becomes operational.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:41 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392037

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many proposals to create more tourist beds on St Helena (1) have been passed, (2) are currently under consideration, and (3) have been rejected, by the island’s planning authority.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>St Helena Government has confirmed that since July 2014, five applications for additional accommodation have been approved by St Helena’s Planning Authority and two are currently under consideration. None have been rejected.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:14:34 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

392038

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	St Helena: Tourism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to increase the number of tourist beds on St Helena; what progress has been made in this regard since the decision to build an airport on the island was made in 2010; and what incentives they are offering to encourage inward investors to provide tourist facilities on the island.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL1793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department for International Development supports Enterprise St Helena (ESH), the St Helena Government’s development agency. Enterprise St Helena offers grants to assist local businesses with proposals to increase the quantity and quality of tourist accommodation. Fifteen new serviced rooms have been added since 2010, with an additional 38 serviced rooms planned for construction between 2015 and 2016. The Saint Helena Government has introduced a range of tax incentives for investors, including tax credits, rollover reliefs and accelerated depreciation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:15:03 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

391295

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their latest estimate of the number of Syrians displaced (1) within Syria, and (2) abroad.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL1652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>There are an estimated 7.6 million internally displaced persons within Syria, and there are now over four million refugees from Syria in neighbouring countries. According to the UN, there have been over 278,000 Syrian asylum applications in Europe between April 2011 and May 2015.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:10:59 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

391315

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Bank: Armed Conflict
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost to the public purse in the last five years of the conflict in the West Bank, both directly and via the EU.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL1663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK provided £349 million in support of Palestinian development between 2011-2015 and will provide a further £72 million in 2015/16. This includes support for both Gaza and the West Bank.</p><p>DFID's programme contributes to UK policy objectives of a negotiated two-state solution. Following the conflict in Gaza last year, the UK provided £17 million of immediate humanitarian assistance and pledged a further £20 million of early recovery assistance at the Gaza Reconstruction conference in Cairo.</p><p>We have already disbursed over 80% of the pledge. European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) is the main EU financial instrument for the OPTs which provides funding to support governance at local and national levels, private sector and economic development and water and land development. In 2014, EU funding through the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) amounted €309.5 million.</p><p>The UK contributes to the EU Budget as a whole, and not to individual instruments within it. The UK’s share of the EU’s expenditure in EU instruments is approximately 14.5%.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:13:00 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

391066

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	UNESCO
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of UNESCO.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL1604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>In 2011 UNESCO was one of the agencies assessed in the Multilateral Aid Review. That review rated UNESCO as Poor Value for Money and sought significant improvements in results based management, a strengthened focus on value for money, continued reductions in administrative overhead and improved transparency.</p><p>In 2013 we conducted a follow-up review of UNESCO. This concluded that the organisation had made reasonable progress with reforms, particularly in the areas of greatest weakness in the 2011 assessment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 13:29:09 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

390601

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the proportion of HIV-related deaths in (1) Kenya, (2) Malawi, (3) Mozambique, (4) Nigeria and (5) Rwanda that are due to tuberculosis.
tabling member printed	Baroness Nye
uin	HL1541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>World Health Organisation (WHO) data shows that, in 2013, the proportion of deaths amongst people with HIV that were due to TB was as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Proportion of deaths amongst people with HIV that were due to TB in 2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kenya</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malawi</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mozambique</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nigeria</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rwanda</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:01:15 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	4180 label Biography information for Baroness Nye

390641

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	South Sudan: Food Supply
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the food security situation in South Sudan; and to what extent the United Kingdom will respond bilaterally as well as through the specialised UN agencies.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL1581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The most recent South Sudan Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report dated 27 May 2015 shows an increase in the number of people facing severe food insecurity. 4.6m people / 40% of the population are estimated to be unable to meet their basic food needs. The UK is the second largest bilateral donor to the humanitarian response in South Sudan, contributing £172m since the start of the crisis, along with an additional £88.9m to the regional response for South Sudanese refugees. This support is provided both bilaterally and to specialised UN agencies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 30/07/2015 14:01:39 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich