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523687

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what form of evidence of incapacity is acceptable for Personal Independence Payments claims when a person suffering from severe myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome, for which there is currently no treatment, has had no contact with any medical professionals or auxiliary practitioners for a considerable length of time.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	uin	HL502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department encourages claimants to provide as much relevant evidence as necessary to support their claim. The “How your disability affects you” form and accompanying guidance sets out the range of information that can help the Department reach a decision. The guidance for Health Professionals also sets out sources of further evidence which could help inform their advice to the Department, this includes family members, carers or anyone else who supports them.</p><p> </p><p>Before claimants are invited for a face-to-face consultation, all of the evidence held is reviewed and if, at that stage, a decision can be made on the paper evidence alone, then claimants will not be required to attend a face-to-face consultation. Alternatively, further evidence that might help inform the Department’s decision on the claim can be requested by the Health Professional.</p><p> </p><p>If the Health Professional cannot provide advice to the Department at this stage, or where there is insufficient or no other suitable sources of evidence on which to make an assessment, claimants will be invited to attend a face-to-face consultation. This gives claimants the opportunity to put across their own views of the impact of their health condition on their everyday lives, ensuring that decisions reflect the best evidence. In some cases we carry out consultations in the claimant’s home.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 16/06/2016 13:47:27 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

577906

	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	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding the Department for International Development is making available for family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights this year.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL1654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government is determined to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to modern family planning methods. We were instrumental in ensuring the Sustainable Development Goals included two targets covering universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and we are encouraging other countries to increase their commitments. Our investments in family planning aim to reach 24 million additional women and girls by 2020 and we are on track to meet this. In 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, UK spending on family planning was £203 million, exceeding our 2012 London Summit commitment to double our yearly spend in this area.</p><p>We are currently developing our plans to 2020. As well as a large commitment to the United Nations Population Fund Supplies Programme (£356m until 2020), DFID also supports the Family Planning 2020 Secretariat, work on shaping reproductive health markets through the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL1655 HL1656 HL1657 question first answered 16/09/2016 11:00:42 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

577907

	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	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding the Department for International Development will make available to family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights organisations this year.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL1655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government is determined to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to modern family planning methods. We were instrumental in ensuring the Sustainable Development Goals included two targets covering universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and we are encouraging other countries to increase their commitments. Our investments in family planning aim to reach 24 million additional women and girls by 2020 and we are on track to meet this. In 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, UK spending on family planning was £203 million, exceeding our 2012 London Summit commitment to double our yearly spend in this area.</p><p>We are currently developing our plans to 2020. As well as a large commitment to the United Nations Population Fund Supplies Programme (£356m until 2020), DFID also supports the Family Planning 2020 Secretariat, work on shaping reproductive health markets through the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL1654 HL1656 HL1657 question first answered 16/09/2016 11:00:42 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

577909

	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	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support women and girls around the world to access universal family planning and sexual and reproductive health services as agreed at the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL1657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government is determined to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to modern family planning methods. We were instrumental in ensuring the Sustainable Development Goals included two targets covering universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights and we are encouraging other countries to increase their commitments. Our investments in family planning aim to reach 24 million additional women and girls by 2020 and we are on track to meet this. In 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, UK spending on family planning was £203 million, exceeding our 2012 London Summit commitment to double our yearly spend in this area.</p><p>We are currently developing our plans to 2020. As well as a large commitment to the United Nations Population Fund Supplies Programme (£356m until 2020), DFID also supports the Family Planning 2020 Secretariat, work on shaping reproductive health markets through the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL1654 HL1655 HL1656 question first answered 16/09/2016 11:00:42 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

582696

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what non-grant mechanisms the Department for International Development uses to finance sexual and reproductive health and family planning.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL1879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2016 answer text <p>DFID primarily provides support in developing countries through grants to delivery partners. We work in the poorest countries, including fragile and conflict affected states, for whom non-grant options can pose more risk.</p><p>No DFID resources that are specifically disaggregated as supporting sexual and reproductive health and rights or family planning were provided via non-grant mechanisms during those periods. While we do support World Bank IDA, which is a non-grant source of finance, we believe it is important that countries establish their own priorities for spending these resources.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL1880 question first answered 27/09/2016 13:59:52 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

582698

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding mechanisms they use to disburse funding for sexual and reproductive health and family planning in fragile and conflict-affected states.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL1881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2016 answer text <p>The UK aid strategy has committed that, from 2016, we spend 50% of our support in fragile states and regions. This will include our work on family planning and broader sexual and reproductive health and rights. In such settings, DFID uses multilateral mechanisms, for example United Nations Population Fund, and our bilateral programmes to disburse funding for sexual and reproductive health services. In addition the UK has made a commitment that in humanitarian crises, DFID calls for proposals will require that the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls to be considered.</p><p>DFID spent approximately £605m on sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health in fragile and conflict affected states and their neighbours in 2014; £606m in 2013 and £526m in 2012. This was approximately 6% of DFID ODA in 2012 and 2013 and 7% in 2012.</p><p>In 2015/16 our support to UNFPA totalled £112.5m and included work in fragile and conflict-affected states and humanitarian settings, including in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen. In Syria, for example, DFID will be providing £18.5 million through UNFPA over three years to 2018. This is in addition to the UK’s previous support to Syria, which has helped tackle gender-based violence and enabled access to reproductive health services for more than 260,000 girls and women.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns grouped question UIN HL1882 question first answered 27/09/2016 14:01:17 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

147364

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	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: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of investment in (1) health system strengthening, and (2) public health, in the developing world.
	tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
	uin	HL2768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no internationally recognised methodology for calculating investment in either health systems strengthening or public health.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the need for investment in health systems in developing countries and the adequacy of resources available have been made. Most recently, the Commission on Investing in Health estimated that around an additional $15 billion per annum would be required between 2016 and 2025 to strengthen health systems in developing countries.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 24/11/2014 16:04:25 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
	tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

100988

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to promote integrated healthcare structures and policy in the United Nations post-2015 development agenda.
	tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
	uin	HL2444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK government supports the inclusion of integrated approaches to healthcare in a post 2015 agenda, as shown through the emphasis on Universal Health Coverage in the Report of the High-Level Panel, chaired by the Prime Minister, and its inclusion as a target in the proposal of the Open Working Group for Sustainable Development Goals.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 10/11/2014 15:14:40 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
	tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

62444

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	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: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government with whom they have had discussions about including Millennium Development Goal 5b in the World Health Organisation's draft health goal for the post-2015 framework.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK Government has had discussions with a broad range of interested parties about the importance of including universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the post-2015 framework, recognising the unfinished business of MDG5b on universal access to reproductive health. These parties include other national governments, international organisations and NGOs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 30/06/2014 16:34:30 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

62445

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	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: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to advocate the inclusion of Millennium Development Goal 5b in the World Health Organisation's draft health goal for the post-2015 framework.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>As we have already made clear, the UK supports a target to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health for all. Language on this is included in the most recent draft goals and targets list released by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG) on 2 June.</p><p>The final targets in the post-2015 development framework will however be subject to international negotiations in the United Nations, in which the UK will play an active role.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 30/06/2014 16:55:02 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge