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348529

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what aid she is providing to help countries end violence against women and children as part of new country operational plans; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>I am proud of the leadership role that the UK has played on tackling violence against women and children worldwide, and it will continue to be a key priority for my Department. We have increased programmes that tackle violence against women and girls by 63% in the past two years, and now support 103 programmes in 29 countries.</p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 09/06/2015 15:41:55 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

348570

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Family Planning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department takes to ensure that UK aid is not provided to coercive family-planning schemes or to organisations that are complicit in such schemes.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government supports the work of various international organisations and agencies to promote informed choice, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s empowerment. All UK support to improve sexual and reproductive health – including for family planning – must be provided in the context of informed choice.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 15:40:47 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348571

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	China: Family Planning
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 1 June 2015 to Question 20, whether any UK funding is provided to multinational organisations that assist organisations that are closely involved with China's one-child policy.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>No organisations the UK funds, who work in China, promote the one-child policy. The UK Government supports the work of various international organisations and agencies to promote informed choice, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s empowerment, including voluntary family planning.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 15:41:27 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348572

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Abortion: Sex Selection
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 1 June 2015 to Question 20, what the evidential basis is for the statement that sex selection is not caused by the availability of abortion services or technologies; whether her Department considers that antenatal scanning equipment facilitates sex-selective abortion; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation document “Preventing gender-biased sex selection. An interagency statement”, available online, includes more information and extensive references on these issues.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 16:35:16 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348643

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provides to religious organisations in Burma for education programmes; and what conditions her Department places on such funding.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	1233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>DFID supports the Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) which has the key objective of increasing the number and proportion of children who complete a quality basic education. MEC works with a range of Non-Governmental Organisations, including faith-based organisations, provided that i) the education services are available to members of different religious communities, ii) the project activities supported by MEC do not aim to proselytize or explicitly promote a particular religion and iii) the organisations do not engage in any action that could promote inter-communal tensions and where possible promote inter-communal peace and conflict resolution.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/06/2015 16:40:25 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

348291

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	India: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information she holds on whether any aid offered from the UK is being used to assist people suffering in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from extreme heat and drought.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	1031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>Although we continue to monitor the situation, UK aid is not currently being used to assist people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana following extreme heat and drought conditions in these states. No request for assistance has been made by the Indian Government.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 09/06/2015 16:39:47 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

347962

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid her Department provided to the (a) health sector, (b) education sector and (c) other sectors (i) globally and (ii) in Africa in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) disbursed to the (a) health sector, (b) education sector and (c) other sectors (i) globally and (ii) in Africa in each of the last five years by DFID.</p><p> </p><p>Details of sector spend for 2014 will be published in Statistics on International Development in the autumn of this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p><strong>£ millions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Health</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Education</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Other</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2008</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£552</p></td><td><p>£223</p></td><td><p>£2,563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£227</p></td><td><p>£76</p></td><td><p>£1,009</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2009</p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£670</p></td><td><p>£460</p></td><td><p>£2,937</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£294</p></td><td><p>£204</p></td><td><p>£1,230</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2010</p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£755</p></td><td><p>£406</p></td><td><p>£3,148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£309</p></td><td><p>£199</p></td><td><p>£1,317</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p> </p><p>2011</p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£899</p></td><td><p>£573</p></td><td><p>£3,027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£354</p></td><td><p>£227</p></td><td><p>£1,335</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£1,017</p></td><td><p>£499</p></td><td><p>£3,054</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£511</p></td><td><p>£258</p></td><td><p>£1,292</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>£1,226</p></td><td><p>£797</p></td><td><p>£3,776</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Africa</p></td><td><p>£548</p></td><td><p>£316</p></td><td><p>£1,476</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 16:30:30 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

348104

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support anti-FGM measures.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK is a key supporter of the Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation. We have made the largest single donor commitment ever to this issue, with a flagship programme of £35 million over 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>In addition DFID is exploring what we can do in practising countries where we have bilateral programmes, including supporting efforts to end FGM in Sudan (which has a very high prevalence rate) through a £12m bilateral five year programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We also continue to work with others to increase international commitment to this neglected issue. DFID’s Girl Summit, held in July 2014, resulted in commitments to take action to end FGM and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) from organisations, governments, businesses, communities and individuals across the world.</p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 08/06/2015 12:48:22 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

348105

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nigeria: Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she plans to take to support the implementation of the ban on female genital mutilation in Nigeria.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK is committed to supporting efforts to end female genital mutilation both in the UK and across the globe. We welcome the passing of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill and its ban on female genital mutilation in Nigeria. DFID will work closely with the new Government on the implementation of this Bill. DFID is also supporting implementation at both federal and state levels.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 08/06/2015 16:11:08 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

347691

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
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 Security 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 reports she has received on the work of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition; what steps she is taking to ensure that the Alliance's work does not contribute to the takeover of land belonging to small farmers by multinational corporations; and what steps she is taking to ensure that the Alliance does not prioritise growing food for export over producing food to feed local people.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The New Alliance Leadership Council met on 2<sup>nd</sup> of June 2015. The UK attended this meeting and a progress report was discussed, agreed and will be published shortly on the New Alliance website.</p><p> </p><p>All parties investing under the New Alliance commit to support implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of land, fisheries and forests, which are international guidelines to make land investments transparent and accountable.</p><p> </p><p>Most of the investment commitments made under the New Alliance involve agribusiness investments downstream from the farm and are therefore not competing with small-scale farmers. Such investments are critical to create jobs and new markets for small-scale farmers, and to help African countries diversify out of primary commodity production. This will require investment and growth along the agricultural value chain rather than just investment in small-scale farmers’ food production.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 08/06/2015 16:12:26 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff