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1122005

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Infant Mortality
	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 that child survival is on the agenda at this year’s high-level global meetings.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	245727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK is a strong advocate for the achievement of universal health coverage to ensure child survival, though strengthening health systems – a key issue for this year’s UN General Assembly. The UK invests around £1 billion per year through bilateral aid programmes in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and our support to Gavi, the vaccines alliance, has contributed to the safe vaccination of over 700 million children. The UK will host Gavi’s replenishment in 2020, a demonstration of our continuing commitment to support efforts to save children’s lives from preventable diseases.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 29/04/2019 16:52:14 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123363

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department’s priorities are for the replenishment period and strategy review with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	248000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The UK is delighted to be hosting the Gavi Replenishment in 2020. Gavi has immunised over 700 million children, saving 10 million lives from preventable diseases. The UK is proud to have played a significant role in delivering these extraordinary results.</p><p> </p><p>As hosts of the Replenishment Conference, our priority will be to help Gavi secure the funding it needs to further deliver its life-saving work. The replenishment period is also a terrific opportunity to demonstrate the impact of the UK’s contribution to Gavi for the world’s poorest and to recognise the extraordinary work done by British innovators, academics and health advocates to support Gavi’s mission.</p><p> </p><p>The next strategic period for Gavi is critically important and the UK will continue to press for further improvements. This includes promoting equitable coverage of immunisation to leave no-one behind and ensure vaccines are available for the most vulnerable. The UK will also prioritise ensuring our investment in Gavi is sustainable and delivers maximum value for money by supporting countries to effectively transition from Gavi support to increased domestic funding.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:25:59 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123364

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Vaccination
	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 provide marginalised children with access to vaccines.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	248001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The UK believes all children should have access to lifesaving vaccines, no matter where they live. Equitable vaccine coverage is therefore a key priority for the UK’s support for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. This investment provides immunisation to the poorest children in 68 of the world’s poorest countries. Gavi will vaccinate an additional 76 million children by 2020, preventing 1.4 million deaths from vaccine preventable diseases.</p><p> </p><p>As well as providing support to strengthen the overall health system, Gavi focuses on improving access and equity by identifying the populations and geographical areas most likely to be under immunised and at risk of outbreaks. Gavi have also adapted their model to include a Fragility, Emergency and Refugees policy which provides a more quick and flexible response in fragile countries. This has helped reach unimmunised children in places like Syria and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.</p><p> </p><p>As a Gavi Board member, the UK advocates for equitable coverage as a core priority both now and in the future strategy.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:27:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123365

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department is taking steps to promote competition in the vaccines market.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	248002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Healthy vaccine markets are essential to provide adequate supplies of vaccines at affordable prices for poor countries. This, in turn, improves availability and drives demand for immunisation. The UK supports healthy vaccine market competition through our investment in Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.</p><p> </p><p>A core part of Gavi’s mission is to promote competition and reduce the cost of vaccines. Gavi now supports 17 manufacturers to provide critical vaccines at a lower cost. Many of these manufacturers are now based in low and middle income countries. This has successfully generated over US$764 million in cost savings in 2017 alone and has reduced the cost of immunising a child by 17% since 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The UK also supports Gavi’s Advanced Market Commitment for Pneumococcal Vaccines (AMC), an innovative approach to fostering market competition. By incentivising investment in research and development in the pneumococcal vaccine, the AMC has expanded manufacturing capacity and helped develop a healthy pipeline for vaccine production. This has helped enable 143 million children in 58 countries to be vaccinated against severe pneumonia.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:27:50 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123366

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Vaccination: Prices
	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 increase price transparency for vaccines.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	248003
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The UK recognises the importance of providing affordable vaccines for the poorest nations. Through UK support to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the price of common childhood vaccines has reduced by 17% since 2016. Bringing down vaccine prices is part of a wider strategy in Gavi to increase access to vaccines and our significant investment supports global initiatives to increase vaccine transparency and help ensure their affordability.</p><p> </p><p>Gavi helps secure the lowest price for vaccines for 68 of the world’s poorest countries. Gavi procures its vaccines through UNICEF, which makes public its historic, current and future prices for vaccines. For countries who are not eligible for Gavi-subsidised vaccines, the UK also advocates and supports its partners to make prices publicly available online. This helps establish benchmark prices so countries can negotiate better deals.</p><p> </p><p>Outside of Gavi supported countries, the UK is supportive of the World Health Organisation’s Global Strategy and Plan of Action and Roadmap for Access to Medicines. These plans help increase global price transparency whist also encouraging innovation that is crucial for future vaccine development.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:29:19 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1132996

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Pakistan: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans his Department has to support the international response to the recent HIV outbreak in Pakistan.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>We are closely tracking reports of an outbreak of just over 600 new cases of HIV, 75% of them among children, in a town called Ratto Dero in Sindh province. The UK government invests significantly in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which works closely with the provincial government in Sindh.</p><p> </p><p>There has been an intensive effort to test the population for HIV to establish the extent of the outbreak. Over 20,000 people have been tested to date. We are in close contact with the Global Fund and are working with them to ascertain whether any further assistance is needed, for example to make treatment available for those who need it and prevent onward transmission.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 25/06/2019 15:34:25 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1123909

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Wales
	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 29 April 2019 to Question 245944 on Department for International Development: Wales, how many organisations based in Wales bid for (a) contracts and (b) grants from her Department in the 2018-19 fiscal year.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	249228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2018-19, two companies registered in Wales bid for DFID’s International Multi-Disciplinary Programme (IMDP) framework contract.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is undertaking a schedule of regional Open for Business events across the country to help local businesses make the most of opportunities to deliver UK aid. An Open for Business event took place in Cardiff last year and was attended by 52 Welsh companies. These events are an opportunity for two-way communication to encourage companies to compete for DFID business to share their vital skills and expertise and understand the simplified process for contract applications.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:19:27 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1123983

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Wales
	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 29 April 2019 to Question 245944, on Department for International Development, Wales, how many companies based in each region and nation of the UK secured contracts from her Department in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19; and what the value of each contract was.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	249230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>In 2017-2018, 95% of awarded contracts were to companies based in England with 5% going to companies based in Scotland. In 2018-19, 97% of awarded contracts were to companies based in England with 3% going to companies based in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is undertaking a schedule of regional Open for Business events across the country to help local businesses make the most of opportunities to deliver UK aid. Last year we held ‘Open for Business’ events in Birmingham, Leeds, London and Cardiff, Belfast, Newcastle and Edinburgh which were attended by over 600 business people. These events are an opportunity for two-way communication to encourage companies to compete for DFID business to share their vital skills and expertise and understand the simplified process for contract applications.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 07/05/2019 15:20:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1124325

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Vaccination
	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 effectiveness of her Department's spending on improving global vaccination rates in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	249894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Vaccination represents one of the most cost-effective health interventions. The UK is a global leader in ensuring children across the world benefit from the life-saving power of one of humankind’s greatest achievements. For every US$1 spent on immunisation in the world’s lowest-income countries, there is an estimated saving of US$16; from reduced health care costs for the individual and from the resulting increase in that individual’s contribution to the economy and to society.</p><p> </p><p>Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccination rates are a key indicator of immunisation performance. Through UK support to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, DPT vaccination rates in the world’s poorest countries have now increased from 66% in 2000 to 80% in 2017. These efforts have helped vaccinate over 700 million children, saving over 10 million lives against vaccine-preventable diseases. The UK will not rest on its laurels. The UK will host the Gavi replenishment conference in 2020 where we will lead efforts to drive even greater vaccination coverage; including for children in the most fragile, hardest to reach countries.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/05/2019 14:55:40 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1124374

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Secondment
	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 in his Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	249906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The below table details the number of DFID staff who have been seconded to the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Department for International Trade in each of the last three financial years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>OGD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DEXEU</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DIT</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/05/2019 15:37:09 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane