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date	18/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 15th June to Question 57377, (a) what percentage of the £764 million of UK AID is going to UN agencies and WHO, and (b) which countries have so far benefitted from UK AID funding to combat covid-19.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	61598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>We have committed up to £764 million of UK Aid to combat COVID-19 and reinforce the global effort to find a vaccine. We are using UK aid to its full effect to counter the health, humanitarian, and economic risks and impact of this pandemic in the developing world. <br> <br> The UK has committed £145 million, roughly 19% of the £764 million, to the UN Global Humanitarian Response Plan. Details of which countries are included in the GHRP can be found <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unocha.org%2Fcovid19&amp;data=02%7C01%7CM-Abdulhussein%40dfid.gov.uk%7C324b017b70794b0c837f08d8174dcf93%7Ccdf709af1a184c74bd936d14a64d73b3%7C0%7C0%7C637284970245574143&amp;sdata=4AuqEpmm7vWXjpgIasLznqQHx%2BszcIz%2FJmMdeNh%2BhVQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>We have also adapted over one hundred existing bilateral health and humanitarian programmes, and close to two hundred existing social protection, economic, governance, conflict and other programmes, across 35 countries and regions relevant to the COVID-19 response.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 23/06/2020 14:56:30 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1204460

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure that programmes funded by her Department can be adapted to respond to the covid-19 pandemic and progress on development does not stop as a result of it.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	59798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>We are maximising the UK’s efforts to tackle COVID-19 by adapting and scaling up existing programmes where they can respond to the crisis. In country, we are working quickly to pivot our programming to support the COVID-19 response, reinforcing health, humanitarian, social protection or economic support programmes.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 23/06/2020 14:52:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law