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227913

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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	Burma: Rohingya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many ethnic Rohingya in camps in Rakhine State, Burma, have died in the last year; and what the main causes of deaths in those camps are.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	227887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The Burmese Ministry of Health and the UN did not collect this data last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 24/03/2015 16:02:01 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

227914

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	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	227963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The proportion of DFID staff who have declared their ethnicity is shown in the table below. Numbers below five for any declared ethnicity are not provided as it may identify individuals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Ethnicity</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Any Other Ethnic Group</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian - Any Other Background</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian - Bangladeshi</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian - Indian</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian - Pakistani</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black - African</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black - Caribbean</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed - Any Other Background</p></td><td><p>0.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed - White and Asian</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed - White and Black African</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed - White and Black Caribbean</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - Any Other Background</p></td><td><p>19.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - English</p></td><td><p>19.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - Irish</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - Northern Irish</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - Scottish</p></td><td><p>17.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White - Welsh</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 24/03/2015 17:27:18 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

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

227916

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	South Sandwich Islands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department allocated to the South Sandwich Islands in (a) 2014-15 and (b) each of the previous four financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	227800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has not allocated any funding support to the South Sandwich Islands in 2014-15 or in the previous four financial years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 23/03/2015 17:14:49 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

227964

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	Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the number of (1) villages destroyed in Darfur in 2014, (2) people who were newly displaced that year, (3) displaced people in Darfur in total, and (4) Darfurians currently in refugee camps in Eastern Chad.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>According to the latest UN Panel of Experts report of 15<sup>th</sup> January 2015, 3,324 villages were destroyed between December 2013 and April 2014. The United Nations (UN) Sudan 2015 Humanitarian Response Plan estimates that in Darfur 430,000 people were displaced in 2014 resulting in a total number of 2.5 million people displaced. The United Nation High Commission for Refugees has a record of 367,229 Sudanese refugees in Chad of the 28 February 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/03/2015 17:36:25 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

227966

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	Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Sudanese people they assess to have been displaced or to have fled from Blue Nile or South Kordofan to Ethiopia or South Sudan.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL5781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has a record, as of 28 February 2015, of 233,000 refugees from Sudan in South Sudan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are a further 36,000 refugees from Sudan in Ethiopia.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 23/03/2015 15:16:37 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

227970

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	Sierra Leone
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what long-term plans they have for health infrastructure developed as part of the response to ebola in Sierra Leone.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL5785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Ebola crisis has demonstrated that it is critical to invest in national health systems in epidemic prevention, preparedness and response in order significantly to reduce the risk of a global epidemic. The UK will work with the Government of Sierra Leone and partners to improve systems and structures that will contribute to better future service delivery and infrastructure. This will ensure that should Sierra Leone be faced with a subsequent outbreak of Ebola or an epidemic of another disease, it is better able to respond effectively.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/03/2015 17:38:27 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

227974

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	Africa: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what amount, and proportion, of United Kingdom aid to the African continent has been spent enhancing the education of African children in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL5789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows UK bilateral Official Development Assistance expenditure for education in Africa for each of the last ten years for which figures are available. Information for multilateral expenditure and expenditure through centrally managed programmes is not available in the form requested:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2005 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK ODA Education Sector Spend to Africa</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>221</p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>244</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK ODA Education Spend</p><p>to Africa as a proportion of UK ODA</p><p>Total Spent in Africa (%)</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td><td><p>14.4</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td><td><p>12.2</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td><td><p>13.3</p></td><td><p>14.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Statistics in Development dataset</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/03/2015 17:34:42 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno