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604136

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2016
	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: Visits Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what overseas visits she has made since her appointment.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	48920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has visited a range of countries overseas since her appointment. Information on Ministerial Travel is published as part of DFID’s quarterly transparency return on <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 20/10/2016 14:27:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1122450

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sri Lanka: Terrorism
	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 offered to the Sri Lankan Government as a result of the series of attacks on churches in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	246556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has condemned the attacks and offered her condolences to those affected. DFID is not providing support to the Sri Lankan government - DFID’s bilateral programme in Sri Lanka closed in 2006 when the country graduated to middle income status. In 2016 (most recent figures), the UK’s attributed share of core multilateral funding to Sri Lanka was £30.417m, primarily through the World Bank. This includes £8.3 million of the FCO’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) programme focused on post-conflict community reconciliation and the Global Mine Action Programme which helps to build peace and support development in countries affected by landmines.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 29/04/2019 16:48:14 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

864369

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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: Cleaning Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information he holds on the rate of remuneration for cleaners in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	132853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has a contract with Interserve Facilities Management to provide all facilities management services including cleaning. The contract is part of a larger affiliates contract led by the Cabinet Office.</p><p>The cleaners employed under this contract are paid the national living wage in the East Kilbride office and the London Living Wage in the Whitehall office. This is uplifted every year in line with the Living Wage Foundation.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 22/03/2018 15:08:01 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

598303

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Lake Chad Basin: Overseas Aid
	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 assist with humanitarian action in the Lake Chad basin; and what funds have been allocated to programmes in (a) Cameroon, (b) Chad, (c) Niger and (d) Nigeria that assist with such action.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	47740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We are deeply concerned about the scale of the humanitarian crisis across the Lake Chad Basin. This will require a sustained, multi-year response to support communities devastated by the conflict. The UK is scaling up our support.</p><p>In addition to the £90 million of humanitarian assistance we are already delivering in the region, the UK has now pledged a further £80 million of humanitarian funding. £50 million will go towards meeting the needs of the worst affected communities in Nigeria with food assistance and access to essential household items and services, and £30 million to support those who have been affected by the spread of Boko Haram into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.</p><p>HMG is using a range of opportunities to push our partners and governments across the region on scaling up and improving the quality of the response. This includes calling for a Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation which took place in July 2016; a joint demarche to the UN with the French and USA on the need to improve humanitarian capacity and performance in mid-August; chairing a Lake Chad Basin meeting in the margins of UN General assembly in September 2016, and ongoing high level bilateral meetings with UN officials.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton grouped question UIN 47738 47739 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:30:50 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

598304

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in (a) Chad, (b) Cameroon, (c) Niger and (d) Nigeria on the humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	47739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We are deeply concerned about the scale of the humanitarian crisis across the Lake Chad Basin. This will require a sustained, multi-year response to support communities devastated by the conflict. The UK is scaling up our support.</p><p>In addition to the £90 million of humanitarian assistance we are already delivering in the region, the UK has now pledged a further £80 million of humanitarian funding. £50 million will go towards meeting the needs of the worst affected communities in Nigeria with food assistance and access to essential household items and services, and £30 million to support those who have been affected by the spread of Boko Haram into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.</p><p>HMG is using a range of opportunities to push our partners and governments across the region on scaling up and improving the quality of the response. This includes calling for a Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation which took place in July 2016; a joint demarche to the UN with the French and USA on the need to improve humanitarian capacity and performance in mid-August; chairing a Lake Chad Basin meeting in the margins of UN General assembly in September 2016, and ongoing high level bilateral meetings with UN officials.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton grouped question UIN 47738 47740 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:30:49 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

598305

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Lake Chad Basin: Humanitarian Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	47738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We are deeply concerned about the scale of the humanitarian crisis across the Lake Chad Basin. This will require a sustained, multi-year response to support communities devastated by the conflict. The UK is scaling up our support.</p><p>In addition to the £90 million of humanitarian assistance we are already delivering in the region, the UK has now pledged a further £80 million of humanitarian funding. £50 million will go towards meeting the needs of the worst affected communities in Nigeria with food assistance and access to essential household items and services, and £30 million to support those who have been affected by the spread of Boko Haram into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.</p><p>HMG is using a range of opportunities to push our partners and governments across the region on scaling up and improving the quality of the response. This includes calling for a Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation which took place in July 2016; a joint demarche to the UN with the French and USA on the need to improve humanitarian capacity and performance in mid-August; chairing a Lake Chad Basin meeting in the margins of UN General assembly in September 2016, and ongoing high level bilateral meetings with UN officials.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton grouped question UIN 47739 47740 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:30:49 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

641327

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sierra Leone: Humanitarian 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 humanitarian situation in Sierra Leone.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	53883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State recently returned from Sierra Leone and saw first-hand that although the Ebola crisis has ended, the country faces major development challenges, including some of the worst child and infant mortality rates in the world.</p><p>Ebola has made these challenges worse and reversed, for example, much of the progress in health made since the civil war, with high numbers of health staff dying and sharp falls in essential services, such as treatment of malaria and immunisation. UK support is helping the Government of Sierra Leone to build up better health services and save lives, ensure children get a better education, increase access to water and sanitation, and lay the groundwork for increased economic development.</p><p>Our cross-government response to the 2014/15 Ebola crisis saved lives and stopped the outbreak decimating development in Sierra Leone. Halting the disease in West Africa was the single most important way of preventing Ebola from infecting people in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 29/11/2016 16:43:36 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

659639

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2016
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any funds from her Department will be used to support the 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees coming to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	57953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding allocated to the Home Office is being used to meet the costs of supporting vulnerable refugees resettled or relocated to the UK for the first year, in accordance with internationally agreed guidelines. This includes unaccompanied children resettled from the Middle East and North Africa under the Vulnerable Children Resettlement Scheme, as well as unaccompanied children relocated from Europe.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 20/12/2016 12:48:34 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

692616

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	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: Famine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she has had with her South Sudanese counterpart on the flow of emergency aid into areas affected by the UN-declared famine in South Sudan.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	64807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>I visited South Sudan earlier this month. During my visit, I met with Stephen Dhieu, South Sudan’s Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, and delivered a clear message: that the Government of South Sudan must bring an end to the fighting and allow humanitarian access to all areas of the country.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 28/02/2017 16:37:44 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

445040

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Children
	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 ensure children receive education and protection in conflict zones.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	22632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>DFID supports international efforts in conflict-affected and fragile countries to assist children and reduce their risks of violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. This work is in partnership with mandated protection agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and UNICEF, as well as non-governmental organisations.</p><br /><p>DFID aims to improve learning outcomes, to reach all children in fragile states, and to keep girls in school. DFID supports children overseas to go to school and continue learning even when they are forced from their homes and this includes our flagship £355 million Girls’ Education Challenge that will enable up to 1 million more of the world’s most marginalised girls to benefit from an education of sufficient quality and transform their lives. In addition, DFID is supporting improvements to how the international community provides education in emergencies, including support for the ‘No Lost Generation’ Initiative to provide over 251,000 Syrian children with formal and informal education inside Syria and in the region, allowing them to catch up on lost learning time and sit public school examinations.</p><br /><p>Education and protection will be key themes of the Syria Conference co-hosted by the UK in early February and the protection and education of children affected by natural disasters and conflicts will be addressed at the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/01/2016 16:09:12 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West