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416643

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in what ways the candidate recruited for the post of Senior External Communications Officer for Scotland and other devolved administrations, reference 1456639, will be expected to communicate the benefits of the Union to the Scottish public and take that work to the next level.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	8941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The successful candidate will support all of DFID’s communications while based at our joint UK headquarters. They will also be expected to communicate how Scotland – as part of the UK – is a world leader in international development, working with stakeholders, staff, the media and others to explain the work of DFID. This is in line with the recommendation by the cross-party International Development Committee (IDC) that DFID “give higher priority to making its work known across Scotland”.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/09/2015 16:23:04 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

416645

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the salary and other costs associated with the post of Senior External Communications Officer for Scotland and other devolved administrations, reference 1456639, will be counted towards the Government's target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNI on Overseas Development Assistance.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	8943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The salary for this role will come from the DFID administration budget, which counts towards the Government’s target spending of 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) on Overseas Development Assistance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID has some of the lowest overheads of all Whitehall departments, and also has low administration costs in comparison to other development organisations — at around 2.5% of DFID's overall budget.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/09/2015 16:24:35 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

416646

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she last received correspondence from the Scottish Government Minister for International Development; and when she plans to reply to such correspondence.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	8959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for International Development last received correspondence from the Scottish Government Minister for Europe and International Development on 2 June 2015. The Secretary of State replied to this correspondence by letter on 30 June 2015.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/09/2015 16:25:12 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

416673

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	New Alliance for Food Safety and Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the value for money of the projects supported by the G7 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	8728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Every DFID programme which is contributing to the New Alliance initiative, including both country-level food security and nutrition programmes and funding for wider agricultural policy reforms, is subject to DFID’s annual review processes, which also assess value for money. Additional funding committed through the New Alliance initiative consists of £44m for ‘enabling actions’, and an additional £76m contribution to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme. A list of enabling actions and initial programme reviews with further information are available on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and DFID development tracker websites.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/09/2015 16:16:24 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

416689

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid: Children
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 aid and assistance to children in countries at war with Daesh.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	9057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of the response to the crisis in Syria and the region, and has pledged a total of £1 billion, our largest ever response to a single humanitarian crisis. Of this, £111 million has been allocated to provide protection, psychosocial support and education for children affected by the crisis in Syria and the region. This includes funding to establish women and children’s centres in Iraq– which provide counselling and support for women, and safe spaces for children to play and learn. In Syria, the UK is supporting children with food, shelter and health. The UK also helped launch, and mobilise international support for, the ‘No Lost Generation’ Initiative (NLGI), which aims to prevent a whole generation being lost to the Syria conflict through physical and psychological trauma and lack of access to quality education and other basic services.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/09/2015 16:26:18 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

416736

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Central African Republic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what spending and technical support her Department has committed to what programmes in Central African Republic in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	8734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID’s funding to CAR and CAR refugees has increased in the last five years in response to growing humanitarian needs caused by the conflict which started in 2012. DFID committed £2.25m in assistance in 2009, £5m in 2013, £28m in 2014 and has so far programmed £18m in 2015. UK funding has provided health care, livelihoods, protection and food assistance to CAR populations and CAR refugees over this period.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/09/2015 16:18:37 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

416737

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Africa: Sanitation
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 (a) physical infrastructure and (b) hygiene promotion for water, sanitation and hygiene services in (i) rural and (ii) urban areas in (1) Sierra Leone and (2) Liberia in each of the last five years; and what such spending her Department has planned for in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	8735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID has spent the following on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (WASH) programmes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in each of the last five years, from its bilateral aid budget:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2009</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p>2010</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p>2011</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p>2012</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p>2013</p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p><p>(GBP millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sierra Leone</p></td><td><p>£3.2</p></td><td><p>£3.2</p></td><td><p>£4.4</p></td><td><p>£11.2</p></td><td><p>£15.3</p></td><td><p>£37.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liberia</p></td><td><p>£4</p></td><td><p>£0.4</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>£2.5</p></td><td><p>£6.8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>£7.2 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£3.6 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4.4 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£11.2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£17.8</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£44.2</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This includes work on both physical infrastructure and hygiene promotion in rural and urban areas; however the data is not broken down in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>These programmes resulted in over 1 million people gaining access to improved sanitation facilities in Sierra Leone and more than 250 tonnes of municipal solid waste being collected in Monrovia through proper channels.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ongoing Ebola outbreak, which began in 2014, has devastated both countries. DFID has continued to provide support to WASH as part of our unprecedented £427m response to the crisis. In July this year, the Secretary of State approved a new £240m package to support the government of Sierra Leone in their plans to recover from the outbreak, as well as an additional £6m for the Government of Liberia. Programming, which is now underway, is likely to continue to include significant support for the WASH sector.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/09/2015 16:21:02 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

416738

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Conflict Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of its funding to the African Union Gender, Peace and Security Programme on each country in receipt of such funding.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	8731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>UK support to the African Union Gender, Peace and Security Programme (GPSP) comes from the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (FCO), which has funded the programme since financial year 2014/15. GPSP has delivered a number of high-impact outcomes, including the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI). To date the GPSP has: established and supported the role of Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security within the AU, raising the political profile of Gender across the continent; deployed a team of sexual violence experts to the Central African Republic to help care for victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; supported the formulation of the Gender Mainstreaming action plan for AMISOM, the African Union’s peacekeeping operation in Somalia; funded a conduct and discipline officer to work with the AU Peace Support Operations Department in embedding gender into all agreements between the AU and Troop Contributing Countries; and supported the African Union in responding to allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Somalia by delivering initiatives such as a helpline for victims.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/09/2015 16:17:31 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

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