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731940

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil servants of her Department will be employed to work in the private offices of the joint Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Development currently employs 9 civil servants in the private offices of the two joint DFID and FCO ministers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/06/2017 16:26:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

731970

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nepal: Earthquakes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department has provided to earthquake recovery efforts in Nepal; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The UK has played a leading role in the Nepal earthquake response. Immediately after the 2015 earthquake, the Department for International Development (DFID) provided humanitarian relief for thousands of displaced people. This included reaching over 250,000 people with shelter support and providing over 200,000 people with clothes, blankets and mattresses.</p><p>We are now supporting reconstruction. We have already repaired water supplies for over 33,000 people, and rehabilitated 114km of remote trails. We are working with the Nepali Government to find solutions for all households who remain displaced by the earthquake. Over the next 5 years we will reach over 250,000 with improved water and sanitation and invest in housing reconstruction, supporting poorer households to rebuild safe homes.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/06/2017 16:29:03 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

731971

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Somalia: Famine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to famine relief operations in Somalia; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State visited Somalia on 17 June where she announced a further £60m uplift in UK support to drought relief operations, on top of a contribution of £110m announced last February. During her visit she said: “The UK stepped up early with support, and lobbied others to do more, which has prevented the spread of famine. We are showing our continued leadership with more food, more water and more medicine for those at imminent risk of dying from drought and conflict. The world must follow our lead and act now to put an end to humanitarian crises that threaten our global stability and help accelerate progress on peace, security and prosperity – which is firmly in everyone’s interest.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/06/2017 16:28:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

731113

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Venezuela: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid the UK has provided for the citizens of Venezuela in the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>Details of all UK ODA can be found in the annual Statistics on International Development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 26/06/2017 15:54:10 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

724191

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Yemeni local and national non-governmental organisations received humanitarian aid from her Department in each of the last five years; and what proportion of her Department's overall aid for Yemen that represented in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	71976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>DFID has provided £85.5 million to the Yemen Humanitarian Pooled Fund (YHPF) over the last five years from the total DFID bilateral funding listed in the table below. In 2016, the YHPF provided £94.5 million of support to 7.8 million people, including food security, water and sanitation and health interventions. Approximately £13 million of this funding was delivered by local and national NGOs.</p><p>In addition, in 2017/18 we will provide £24 million to our Multi-Sector Humanitarian Response programme, approximately £1.5m of which will directly support local and national NGOs.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>DFID bilateral programme outturn (in £s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>89.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>65.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>81.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>59.1 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 06:55:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

724192

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of children of school age in Afghanistan, (b) proportion of such children who were not in education and (c) proportion of those not in education who were girls in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>In 2017, official figures show that UK support has helped more than 6.4m children attend school in Afghanistan, 38% of whom are girls. This is up from around 4 million children in 2009/2010, over a third of whom were girls. Figures on the number of children out of school are hard to verify, but the UN estimates the figures to be between 6-7 million over the past few years. A breakdown by gender is not available.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 07:01:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724193

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
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, which five countries have been the greatest recipients of UK foreign aid in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The five largest recipients of UK bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent by either DFID or other government departments is given in the Table below:</p><p> </p><p>Table: Top 5 country recipients of UK bilateral ODA, 2013-2015</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£ m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£ m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>.</p></td><td><p>.</p></td><td><p>.</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>Ethiopia</p></td><td><p>322</p></td><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>374</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ethiopia</p></td><td><p>329</p></td><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>279</p></td><td><p>Ethiopia</p></td><td><p>339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bangladesh</p></td><td><p>272</p></td><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>Afghanistan</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>268</p></td><td><p>Sierra Leone</p></td><td><p>238</p></td><td><p>Nigeria</p></td><td><p>263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nigeria</p></td><td><p>249</p></td><td><p>Nigeria</p></td><td><p>237</p></td><td><p>Syria</p></td><td><p>258</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Statistics on International Development 2016</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 07:00:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724194

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Afghanistan: 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 funding her Department has allocated in aid to Afghanistan in each of the last three years; and on what that funding has been spent.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	71947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>For the last three years (2014/15, 2015/16, and 2016/17) DFID’s bilateral allocation in Afghanistan was £178m per year, in line with the then UK Prime Minister’s pledge at the Tokyo Conference in 2012. This has been invested in economic development, meeting humanitarian needs, building the capacity of the Afghan Government, and delivering services such as health and education.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 06:54:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724195

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
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: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many South Sudanese local and national non-governmental organisations received humanitarian aid from her Department; and what proportion of her Department's overall aid for South Sudan that represented in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	71927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>DFID has provided over £70 million to the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SSHF) over the last 3 years from the total DFID bilateral funding listed in the table below. In 2016, the SSHF provided over £70 million to reach over 1.2m people with WASH, nutrition, health, and other lifesaving activities. Approximately £8 million of this funding was delivered through local and national NGOs.</p><p>In addition to our bilateral funding, targeted support is being provided through DFID’s centrally managed Disaster Emergency Preparedness Programme to deliver 3 projects supporting national and local NGOs in South Sudan to engage more effectively in humanitarian preparedness and response.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>DFID bilateral programme outturn (in £s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>188.184m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>158.013m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>139.647m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>108.516m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for financial year 2016/17 will be published in the DFID Annual Report and accounts due for publication in Summer 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 27/04/2017 06:52:14 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

724196

registered interest
date	25/04/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Montserrat: Economic Situation
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 long-term economic prospects for Montserrat.
tabling member constituency	Gordon
tabling member printed	Alex Salmond
uin	71933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>DFID’s first responsibility is to support Montserrat in delivering essential public services to its citizens, including health, education and social services. Ongoing consideration of the island’s long term economic prospects is a key feature of our development partnership, where we have a shared objective of enabling Montserrat ultimately to manage fully its own financial and economic affairs.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 27/04/2017 06:52:44 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
tabling member	577 label Biography information for Alex Salmond