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600481

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date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much private sector investment has been secured to tackle malaria as part of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State recently announced a UK investment of £1.1 billion over three years in the Global Fund at their replenishment conference in September. This includes a commitment to double private sector contributions for tackling malaria, up to a maximum of £200 million.</p><p>At the conference, an additional $100million (USD) of investment was raised from the private sector to specifically tackle malaria and further investment will be raised in the coming year.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/10/2016 15:54:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

600498

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Infant Mortality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to achieve the goal to end, by 2030, preventable deaths of new-borns and children under five years of age, adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL2251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>Global progress, which began prior to 2015, continues to be made on ending preventable newborn and child deaths, with significant support from the UK government. It is too early to quantify how much progress has been made since September 2015.</p><p>To accelerate progress and help to meet the Sustainable Development Goal targets the UK government supported the development of, and signed a commitment to, the updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health.</p><p>We continue to invest in improving health systems in our focal countries to ensure that mothers and newborns can receive better quality care at birth, so improving their chances of survival. We also invest in care for children under the age of 5, for example through the prevention and treatment of malaria and other childhood diseases.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 26/10/2016 14:35:45 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

600500

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the UN report, published in September, that more than 3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL2253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The UK directly supports a number of bilateral education programmes for refugees providing indirect support through multilateral contributions to organisations such as UNHCR. Specifically on the Syria crisis, in 2015/16 UK Aid, as part of the No Lost Generation Initiative (NLGI), has provided nearly 392,000 children in Syria and the wider region with formal education and nearly 95,000 with non-formal education. Additional psychological support has been provided to nearly 199,000 children, and 350,000 text books to children in Lebanon, nearly 100,000 of which are Syrian refugees.</p><p>The UK has been instrumental in creating a new global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – called ‘Education Cannot Wait’ – which was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in May this year. This fund will support displaced children to access quality education, as part of its wider mandate to improve education in emergency and crises affected countries. The UK pledged £30million for two years to the fund, as the largest founding donor, which will contribute towards the fund reaching 4.5 million children in its first two years. The UK also supports research on refugee education, education in emergencies and through a new partnership with the World Bank on their Global Program on Forced Displacement.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/10/2016 15:53:57 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

600520

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the amount of aid expenditure in respect of refugees from Syria since 1 April 2012 in each of (1) Lebanon, (2) Jordan, (3) Turkey, and (4) EU Member States; and in each category how much was routed through (a) state governments, (b) UN agencies, (c) EU agencies, and (d) voluntary organisations of all kinds.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>UK funding in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey targets not only Syrian refugees, but also vulnerable members of the communities hosting these refugees.</p><p>To date, the UK has pledged a total of £2.3 billion to the Syria crisis response, to be allocated and spent by Department for International Development (DFID) implementing partners between 2012 and 2020. Of this, £1.7 billion has already been allocated to partners working in the region, including £1.1 billion in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. £285 million of this is a contribution to the EU Turkey Refugee Facility, in addition to the UK’s contribution via the EU budget, to be spent between 2016 and 2019.</p><p>Table 1 (attached) provides a summary of how much DFID Syria Crisis Response funding has been spent (disbursed out of DFID bank accounts) up to the end of financial year 2015/2016, to implementing partners in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey by partner type.</p><p>DFID has also allocated £54.5 million as part of its Mediterranean Crisis Response since October 2015. Over one million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in 2015, half a million of whom were Syrians escaping war. This funding has not only reached refugees from Syria, but also beneficiaries from other nationalities. Table 2 (attached) shows the Mediterranean Crisis Response funding DFID has allocated to be spent in each country by implementing partner.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 26/10/2016 14:18:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name HL2273 - Table 1 & Table 2.docx title PQ HL2273 - Table 1 & Table 2
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

600522

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria: International Assistance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the $6 billion pledged at the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London on 4 February has now been (1) delivered, and (2) dispersed in the recipient countries; and what plans there are to achieve further financial support, particularly for under-funded areas, such as the UN-coordinated humanitarian inter-agency appeals.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has set up a tracking mechanism that will report on the delivery of all the financial commitments made at the February 2016 Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London, including humanitarian and development funding and loans. As of 21 September 2016, of the $6 billion grants pledged for 2016 at the Conference, donors had committed $6.3 billion and delivered $4.7 billion.</p><p>The UK continues to work with other London Conference co-hosts to urge donors to deliver on the commitments they made in London and to consider what more can be done to meet the funding gaps of the UN appeals. This was discussed at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, where the Secretary of State for International Development co-chaired a Conference follow up event.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 26/10/2016 14:21:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

600731

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Greece: Migrant Camps
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 humanitarian situation in refugee camps in Greece.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	48474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>In collaboration with the Greek Government, the Department for International Development (DFID) closely monitors conditions for refugees and migrants in camps in Greece. Officials from DFID make frequent visits to camps and a humanitarian adviser has been deployed in Athens. I travelled to Greece in September, where I visited camps and met with migrants and those involved in addressing the humanitarian situation.</p><p>The UK has responded generously to the Mediterranean humanitarian crisis, contributing more than £34 million to the response in Greece. This support has provided life-saving assistance refugees and migrants including the provision of food, water, hygiene kits and infant packs, and psychosocial care.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/10/2016 15:16:38 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

600732

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Migrant Camps: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the refugee camps which are currently receiving aid from her Department.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	48475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>DFID supports refugee camps in many different countries as part of our wider programming to assist those displaced by conflict, persecution and fear. It is not possible to list each individual camp.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/10/2016 15:15:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

600733

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: EU External Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent meetings she has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials of the Department for International Trade on the effect on developing countries of EU food tariffs.
tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
uin	48215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State meets with her Ministerial colleagues regularly to discuss a variety of issues relating to trade and development. DFID officials are working closely with the Department for International Trade and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impact of EU tariffs and non-tariff measures on developing country exports.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/10/2016 15:19:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

600734

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Middle East: Overseas Aid
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 potential pressure on its foreign aid budget from requirements for humanitarian aid within Syria and neighbouring countries.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	48293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>My department has assessed the level of support needed to help those affected by the Syria crisis and allocated its budget accordingly. In response to the Syria crisis, the UK has committed £2.3 billion since 2012, making us the second largest humanitarian donor after the US. This includes £510 million for support to Syria and the region in 2015/2016 and a further £840 million that has been pledged for the coming years until 2020.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 17/10/2016 16:19:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

600735

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's budget is planned to be allocated to projects administered by other Departments in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	48287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The Spending Review settlement provides that approximately 17% of DFID’s budget in 2017-18 is expected to be transferred to (a) other government departments to fund projects that they will administer and (b) cross-government facilities into which DFID and other departments can bid such as the Conflict, Security and Stabilisation Fund as set out in DFID’s Spending Review settlement letter.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/10/2016 16:02:33 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor