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582786

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	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 ensure value for money in its aid budget.
	tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Pow
	uin	906321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>My predecessors in Government have made huge progress in improving British aid by creating an independent aid watchdog, introducing much tougher value-for-money controls and making DFID’s spending even more transparent.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2016 15:13:23 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow

582788

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	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 ensure value for money in its aid budget.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	James Berry
	uin	906326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>My predecessors in Government have made huge progress in improving British aid by creating an independent aid watchdog, introducing much tougher value-for-money controls and making DFID’s spending even more transparent.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2016 15:14:32 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

577597

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Malawi: Food Supply
	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 tackle food insecurity in Malawi.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
	uin	45530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>Malawi is facing its worst food crises since independence. The UK’s commitment to Malawi will help feed and sustain over a quarter of a million vulnerable people and treat 150,000 children and vulnerable adults suffering from malnutrition. We are preparing further support to prevent cholera and other waterborne diseases. We are urging our international partners to further scale-up their response now, as we continue to work with the Government of Malawi at the policy level to break the cycle of recurring humanitarian crises.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 14/09/2016 15:34:19 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

582787

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress she is making on ensuring that Syrian refugee children in that region receive an education; and what her plans are to follow up the outcomes of the London Conference in February 2016 at the next UN General Assembly meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	906328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>DFID helped launch and has committed £285 million to the No Lost Generation Initiative. This will provide education opportunities for an estimated 1.4 million Syrian refugee children allowing them to catch up on lost learning time and perform well in public school examinations in the foundational subjects of Arabic, English, Maths and Science.</p><p>The Secretary of State for International Development will co-host an event at the UN General Assembly in which Conference co-hosts, top donors and refugee-hosting countries will review the overall progress against the commitments. The event aims to agree on how donors and host countries can improve and hasten education provision and quality for refugee children, and job opportunities; and review the evolving situation inside Syria, with particular reference to humanitarian access and protection.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/09/2016 15:23:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

582789

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Exchange Rates
	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 effect of recent changes in the relative value of the pound on her Department's finances.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	906320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2016 answer text <p>We have conducted an assessment of the effects of recent changes, and our conclusion is that the impact is relatively limited, for 3 reasons:</p><ol><li>fluctuations are not new;</li><li>almost all of our payments are in pounds, so fluctuations do not directly impact departmental finances; and</li><li>the partners we work with are carefully selected to make sure they have robust financial mechanisms in place, to deal with currency fluctuations and other risks.</li></ol> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 14/09/2016 15:22:18 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff