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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

1134578

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	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 money was paid by organisations contracted by his Department to deliver aid projects to consultants in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	268961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>DFID does not hold information on the contractual monetary value of work our suppliers subcontract across all our programmes, nor can we determine whether this is to consultants or not.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 01/07/2019 15:57:10 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1135786

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Farmers: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that its policies and funding support equal pay for female and male farmers.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	271467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>DFID’s 2017 Economic Development Strategy commits to tackling gender discrimination and to delivering safer, more secure and higher-return work for women, building on the 2015 UK commitment made through our G7 membership to include gender objectives in at least 50% of agriculture and food security programmes. A 2018 review of DFID’s commercial agriculture programmes found that 31 of DFID’s 65 commercial agriculture programmes aimed to increase the returns received by women working in agriculture.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also assists the development of standards that help smallholder farmers reach a decent standard of living: for example, by providing £3.7 million in assistance to the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance (ISEAL Alliance) which supports systems such as Fairtrade. DFID is also a founding member of the Living Income Community of Practice.</p><p> </p><p>DFID’s 2019 review of commercial agriculture programmes finds that since 2007, 22 million smallholders have benefitted from DFIDs current commercial agriculture programming (3.4 million of them women) with 4.7 million of these (1.1 million women) having benefited financially.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:31:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1135787

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Civil Society
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen global civil society throughout the world.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	271468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>In financial year 2016-17, DFID spent £1.3 billion funding the work of civil society. DFID provides assistance to strengthen civil society in the UK and overseas through capacity building support and funding opportunities. This assistance is delivered through our centrally-managed programmes and our country programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2016 we have provided funding through our centrally-managed programmes to more than 200 civil society organisations (CSOs) of diverse sizes and policy areas, delivering projects across at least 35 countries. DFID is acting to increase support to CSOs based in developing countries, including through broadening out some of our centrally-managed programmes to accept bids from Southern-based CSOs.</p><p> </p><p>Through UK Aid Connect we are funding programmes specifically targeted at enhancing civil society effectiveness in the UK and overseas.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:32:30 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1135788

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to increase coordination of its work with charities operating in rural Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	271469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>DFID continually evaluates the effectiveness and impact of the important development work delivered by the charities it funds in Africa. Lessons learnt are shared widely and integrated to improve programme delivery.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:25:38 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1133360

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if his Department will take steps to publish detailed country policy analyses pertaining to the Effectiveness Evaluation of the Prevention of Maternal Deaths from Unwanted Pregnancy Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Stone
	tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
	uin	266640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>My Department published the Evaluation of the Prevention of Maternal Deaths from Unwanted Pregnancy Programme which can be found <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-201518/documents" target="_blank">here</a>, together with the management response. The report summarises the extensive findings; including evaluation background, findings from countries policy analysis and methodological approaches. We do not intend to publish anything further at this stage.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 27/06/2019 16:15:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1135811

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Plastics: Recycling and Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to support (a) the removal of plastic waste and (b) increase plastic recycling internationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	271395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Development is supporting developing countries address problems around marine litter and has committed £39 million over the last year to tackle the problem of plastic pollution. We are supporting governments to consider what practical steps they can take to reduce the pollution of our oceans, such as restricting the use of plastic bags. We are starting to work with businesses and NGOs in Africa and Asia to trial new approaches to increase plastic recycling rates, thereby helping the environment while creating new jobs. This includes our work in Bangladesh where we will work with industry to increase the quality and volume of local plastic recycled and the percentage of locally recycled plastic used, particularly in garment manufacturing.</p><p> </p><p>Through UK Aid Match, we are supporting the Tearfund plastics appeal (up to £3m) to set up recycling hubs across Pakistan. We are also investing in research to find ways in which manufacturing processes can help reduce plastic pollution.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the UK provides considerable funding to multilateral organisations who are working with countries to tackle this problem, including some major investments in waste management services.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:25:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

1135813

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Bangladesh: Plastics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects his Department supports in Bangladesh that remove plastic waste from (a) rivers and (b) the sea.
	tabling member constituency	St Albans
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
	uin	271397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Development is committed to helping developing countries tackle the problem of marine plastic pollution. We developed the Tackling Waste and Plastic Pollution programme as part of wider UK Government efforts to address this. The programme provides up to £13 million, plus technical assistance and practical support to a number of Commonwealth countries to improve waste management, and to reduce marine plastic pollution. Bangladesh is one of the beneficiary countries. A pilot project is now being developed in Dhaka to understand what works to reduce and manage plastic waste in low income city contexts, including reducing the impact on rivers and oceans.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:35:19 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

1135805

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	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: Iron and Steel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will make it his Department's policy to sign up to the UK Steel Charter.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	271474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>DFID provides technical assistance and commodities to meet humanitarian needs or extend basic services in developing countries. All DFID contracts are tendered in accordance with the EU Public Procurement Directive and the UK Public Procurement Regulations 2015, the focus of which is to ensure open and fair competition between bidders. This means our contracts are competitively tendered following a set of standard processes set out in the regulations These regulations establish what we can do as a public sector organisation and our processes also ensure that our due diligence of suppliers is comprehensive and rigorous.</p><p> </p><p>This competitive approach helps ensure value for money in the delivery of UK aid. British companies have continued to be very successful in this competitive market with UK firms winning 80% of our contracts in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:33:25 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1135806

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	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: Iron and Steel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether officials in his Department have had discussions with officials in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the UK Steel Charter.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	271475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>We have discussed the procurement of steel with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which has asked all Government departments to consider guidance on steel procurement and to notify of any upcoming opportunities for industry.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government is committed to supporting the steel sector to realise the broader commercial opportunities that are open to it, which could be worth an additional £3.8 billion a year by 2030. We are establishing the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund – backed by up to £315m of investment – to help businesses with high energy use (including steel companies) to cut their bills and transition UK industry to a low carbon future. We are also providing up to £66m through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to help steel and other foundation industries develop radical new technologies.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/07/2019 15:34:14 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin