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995539

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Cholera
	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 has allocated to tackle the cholera outbreak in Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	184378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK contributed 25% of the costs of the first ever cholera vaccination campaigns in Yemen early this year, through our funding to the Global Vaccines Alliance. This has helped to protect nearly a million men, women and children.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, we provided over £8 million in targeted cholera support to UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration. This support aimed to provide medical supplies to half a million people, safe access to chlorinated water to 300,000 people, and rehabilitate medical facilities used by 250,000 people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the UK’s overall £170 million in aid to Yemen this financial year (2018/19) is tackling the underlying causes of cholera by helping provide emergency food, nutrition support, and clean water and sanitation to millions of people.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/11/2018 14:03:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

999127

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken to ensure that (a) food, (b) fuel and (c) medical supplies reach hard to access parts of Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	186297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK has played a leading role in helping secure vital access for food, fuel, and medicine into and throughout Yemen. Last year when Red Sea port access was restricted after a Houthi ballistic missile attack on Riyadh’s civilian airport, UK diplomacy including a visit from the Secretary of State for Development to Riyadh led to the ports being fully reopened. As a part of this effort, the UK provides £1.3 million to the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism to give the Coalition confidence that weapons are not coming in to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on commercial ships. Red Sea ports remain fully operational and continue to import most of the food and fuel on which Yemenis rely.</p><p> </p><p>As we have consistently made clear, the Houthis must facilitate access throughout areas they control which is where most of the population live. As penholder on Yemen in the UN Security Council, the UK continues to call on all parties to comply with the UNSC Presidential Statements of June 2017 and March 2018, which insist that all parties facilitate safe, rapid, and unhindered access for both the humanitarian response and commercial supplies.</p><p> </p><p>On 3 April, the UK announced an additional £170 million in response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen for this financial year (2018/2019). This funding will meet immediate food needs for 2.5 million Yemenis - as well as providing fuel and medical supplies across the country - and brings the total UK bilateral support to Yemen to over £570 million since 2015.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 06/11/2018 15:35:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

778260

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Syria: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department plans to increase its investment in education for women and girls in Syria.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	109969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK continues to invest in education for women and girls affected by the crisis in Syria. We helped launch UNICEF’s No Lost Generation Initiative, which provides education, protection, and mental health support for children in Syria and neighbouring countries. In 2016/2017 alone, DFID helped provide over 350,000 children in Syria with access to formal primary education, half of whom were girls. In addition, over 80,000 children, including girls, were provided with access to non-formal education. DFID also helped to provide over 3,500 people in Syria with technical and vocational training, including women.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/11/2017 18:13:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

778835

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Syria: Education
	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 contribute to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 4, on inclusive and quality education for all and promoting lifelong learning with regard to women and girls in Syria.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	110069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK continues to invest in education for women and girls affected by the crisis in Syria. We helped launch UNICEF’s No Lost Generation Initiative, which provides education, protection, and mental health support for children in Syria and neighbouring countries. In 2016/2017 alone, DFID helped provide over 350,000 children in Syria with access to formal primary education, half of whom were girls. In addition, over 80,000 children, including girls, were provided with access to non-formal education. DFID also helped to provide over 3,500 people in Syria with technical and vocational training, including women.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/11/2017 17:48:28 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1007806

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian 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 get (a) food and (b) fuel imports into Yemen during the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
	tabling member constituency	Banbury
	tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
	uin	191942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK government continues to raise concerns with the Saudi led-Coalition about the potential impact of any assault on the port and city of Hodeidah and is in regular contact with the Coalition about the need to ensure that any further military operations do not disrupt commercial and humanitarian flows both through the port and onwards across the country. To date, Red Sea ports remain operational and continue to import most of the food and fuel on which Yemenis rely.</p><p>As we have consistently made clear, the Houthis must facilitate access throughout areas they control which is where most of the population live.</p><p>As part of our effort to secure vital access for food, fuel, and medicine into and throughout Yemen, the UK is also providing £1.3 million to the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism to give the Saudi-led Coalition confidence that weapons are not coming in to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on large commercial ships.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/11/2018 15:51:14 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

971507

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	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: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the socio-economic background of people appointed to senior positions in her Department in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	172616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Development collects data on the four key socio-economic metrics set across Government on a voluntary basis. These are listed below along with the percentage of senior civil servants who had recorded this information at 30 June 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The table below confirms these measures and the percentage of Senior Civil Servants in DFID who have recorded this information to date.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Measure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage of DFID SCS who have provided information</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type of school attended between the age of 11 and 16</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eligibility for free school meals (if a person left school after 1980);</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highest qualification achieved by a person’s parents by the time they were 18</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The work the main earner in the household did when the person was 14</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/09/2018 12:02:41 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

749682

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Burma: Peace Negotiations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding was provided to support the peace process in Burma in 2016-17; and which organisations were recipients of that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	3631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>In the financial year 2016-17 DFID contributed £4.2 million to the Peace Support Fund managed by the Nordic International Support Foundation. The Fund provides support to civil society, youth and women’s organisations working on peace.</p><p>The DFID Minister of State met representatives of the government and Burma’s ethnic groups during his visit to Burma in July 2017. The peace process was an important topic of discussion raised by the minister during his visit.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/07/2017 15:52:14 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

749683

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Burma: Internally Displaced People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to address the shortfall in funding for internally displaced people in Shan State and Kachin State in Burma.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	3629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>DFID has provided £25.8 million in humanitarian and health assistance to internally displaced and conflict-affected people in Kachin and Northern Shan States since 2012. The UK is one of the largest providers of assistance to the crisis in Kachin and northern Shan states. We will continue to respond to humanitarian need and will encourage other donors to play their part.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/07/2017 15:49:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

767638

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Iran: Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the oral contribution by the Minister for the Middle East on 18 July 2017, Official Report, column 297WH, what funds her Department has allocated to supporting engagement with Iran on economic development and openness.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	106660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has not allocated any funds to supporting engagement with Iran on economic development and openness.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/10/2017 17:05:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

767639

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Iran: 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 funding her Department has provided to Iran to assist with human rights projects in each year since 2010-11; and how much such funding she plans to allocate in future years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	106595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Development (DFID) has not provided any funding to Iran to assist with human rights projects since 2010, and has no plans to do so in future. Between 2011 and 2015, the UK held no diplomatic relations with Iran.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/10/2017 17:05:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq