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541068

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
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 13 July 2016, to Question 41982, which nations receive direct foreign aid from the UK.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	43599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>DFID has now stopped providing general budget support in all countries with the exception of Pakistan. This year DFID only anticipates providing sector budget support in Ghana, Nepal, Pakistan and Zambia.</p><p>We also support partner governments to deliver development objectives in other ways including technical assistance and support to build their core systems. This ensures appropriate safeguards for UK taxpayers’ resources are in place.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 05/09/2016 16:21:41 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

533409

registered interest
date	06/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the foreign aid budget was given directly to the governments of recipient nations in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	41982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>Direct financial aid to governments of recipient nations constituted 14%, 12% and 9% of DFID’s total programme expenditure for years 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 respectively. These are the three most recent years for which this data is currently available. General Budget Support reduced from 2.2% to 0.5% of DFID’s total programme expenditure over the same period.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Sir Desmond Swayne question first answered 13/07/2016 12:39:41 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

426601

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which regulations her Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations her Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate she has made of the cost of such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	15050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 12/11/2015 16:02:33 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417329

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID has offset all its air miles flown annually since 2008 through the Government Carbon Offsetting Scheme (GCOF). We have spent the following sums in each of the last three years:</p><p> </p><p>2011/12: £8,345</p><p>2012/13: £14,208</p><p> </p><p>2013/14: £25,341</p><p> </p><p>In 2011/12 and 2012/13 payment was made to EDF Trading Ltd. In 2013/14 it was made to Carbon Footprint Ltd.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 14/09/2015 16:39:17 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227915

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>For all devices connected to the DFID network, access to news applications is restricted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 23/03/2015 15:51:29 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91193

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects solely for the benefit of (a) males and (b) females in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The particular information requested is not collected centrally and is not available without incurring disproportionate costs. The UK Government is committed to increasing focus on girls and women across all our investments to ‘stop poverty before it starts’ by creating environments that unlock their voices, choices and control, and that empowers them economically.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since May 2014, under the International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014, DFID is required to give regard to the contribution its assistance is likely to make to reducing gender inequality, or to gender-related differences in needs, before assistance is provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 13/10/2014 15:03:33 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91315

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Art Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the cost to the public purse was of the Girl Effect Art Installation in her Departmental offices.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>There is no Girl Effect Art Installation in DFID offices. The “GIRL” letters were commissioned as a backdrop for Girl Summit 2014, an event hosted by the UK Government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help bring an end to female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage. They were also used as a backdrop for #YouthforChange, a youth event held at the Department for International Development on 19 July to kick-start a youth movement on girls’ rights.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Nike Foundation made a substantive financial contribution to the Girl Summit, including providing funds to cover the cost of the “GIRL” letters. These continue to be displayed in the entrance hall of the Department for International Development as a way of maintaining momentum from the Girl Summit and raising awareness of the need to end FGM and CEFM within a generation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 13/10/2014 14:59:48 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

91066

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on media monitoring in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Since financial year 2008/9, media monitoring costs have been reduced by more than half to £63,960.40 in 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£159,000.00</p></td><td><p>£152,000.00</p></td><td><p>£102,000.00</p></td><td><p>£77,000.00</p></td><td><p>£64,000.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures rounded to the nearest 1000.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 11/09/2014 16:10:12 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

46318

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what measures are in place to ensure that aid given to foreign countries is used for the purposes intended; and what proportion of such aid not being used for those purposes would result in future aid being denied to that country.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	194676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>DFID has a number of controls in place focussing on monitoring and evaluation, including both internal and external audits and reports from the International Development Committee and the Independent Commission for Aid Impact.</p><p>DFID has strong internal review processes in place to make sure projects are properly monitored and closed if they are not delivering good results and value for money.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies