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1002120

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Accidents: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisation (a) undertook investigations and (b) ensured mandatory compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights before the establishment of the Fatal Accident and Sudden Deaths (Scotland) Act 2016.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	188199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>This is a devolved issue and is therefore the responsibility of the Scottish Government.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/11/2018 14:53:20 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1045904

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what policies and procedures his Department had put in place in relation to the (a) legal and (b) other advice on to the release of information about an individual in the criminal justice system; what policies and procedure his Department had put in place for the (i) designation and (ii) authorisation of personnel to release that information at the time when information on Jon Venables being in custody was released on or around 2 March 2010; whether changes to those policies and procedures since that date; and how changes to those policies and procedures were issued to staff in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	211132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is the Department’s policy not to release information about an individual in the criminal justice system, although it will sometimes be necessary for the Department to confirm information which is already in the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>Under the statutory Probation Victim Contact Scheme (VCS), qualifying victims who have chosen to receive the services of the VCS are entitled to receive certain information about an offender at key stages of the sentence being served by that offender. It is for the Probation Victim Liaison Officer (VLO) to provide that information to victims.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to the offender once known as Jon Venables, a VLO employed by a Probation Trust was designated and authorised to disclose to qualifying victims on or around 2 March 2010 that Venables had been recalled to custody for breaching his licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no change to the relevant policies and procedures since that time, albeit that VLOs are no longer employed by a Probation Trust but by the National Probation Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/01/2019 16:09:22 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

654892

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Dams
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department has provided in respect of the Kajaki Dam project in Afghanistan.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	56849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>The Kajaki Dam was financed by the US Government. In the summer of 2008 UK military forces were involved in delivering a third turbine to the dam. DFID, however, was not involved, and has not been involved in the dam.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/12/2016 17:42:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

714183

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 4985, what funding her Department has provided for services in Afghanistan providing legal advice to women who are victims of domestic violence in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	69331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>The UK is committed to supporting women who are victims of all forms of violence in Afghanistan. From 2014-2016 the UK funded a £3.1m programme which helps women who have been victims of violence to get the justice they deserve. The programme trained hundreds of government officials, community members, police, judiciary, religious leaders, and law students on the Ending Violence Against Women law. It also established a hotline that provided counselling and legal support to survivors of violence which took over 25000 calls from over two years from women who had been victims of domestic and other forms of violence.</p><p>Between 2016 and 2018, the UK is providing £3.1m to UNFPA to establish Family Protection Centres in hospitals that provide health, counselling, legal services and referrals to women who have been victims of violence in Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 31/03/2017 14:01:54 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

724192

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the (a) number of children of school age in Afghanistan, (b) proportion of such children who were not in education and (c) proportion of those not in education who were girls in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	71991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>In 2017, official figures show that UK support has helped more than 6.4m children attend school in Afghanistan, 38% of whom are girls. This is up from around 4 million children in 2009/2010, over a third of whom were girls. Figures on the number of children out of school are hard to verify, but the UN estimates the figures to be between 6-7 million over the past few years. A breakdown by gender is not available.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 07:01:23 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

724194

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: 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 allocated in aid to Afghanistan in each of the last three years; and on what that funding has been spent.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	71947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>For the last three years (2014/15, 2015/16, and 2016/17) DFID’s bilateral allocation in Afghanistan was £178m per year, in line with the then UK Prime Minister’s pledge at the Tokyo Conference in 2012. This has been invested in economic development, meeting humanitarian needs, building the capacity of the Afghan Government, and delivering services such as health and education.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/04/2017 06:54:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

770054

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding from the public purse her Department has provided to organisations or individuals in African countries who support changes to regulatory policy on abortion services at a national level as part of her Department's programme Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancies in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme aims to increase access to family planning services, give women and girls more control over their lives, and reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion. Where national policies on abortion contribute to high levels of maternal death, our programme implementing partners may seek to raise awareness of these issues and support local efforts to achieve reform aimed at saving maternal lives. It is not possible to disaggregate spend on these activities specifically.</p><p>Since 2011, DFID has provided £99.8 million to the overall PMD programme which works across 17 countries.</p><p>The annual breakdown of spend is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>PMDUP/PMD Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>8,033,548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>11,520,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>16,653,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>21,219,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>17,700,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>16,557,743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>8,183,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>99,869,853</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:24:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770064

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Abortion
	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 provided for new abortion service delivery sites in African countries as part of the Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme during 2011 to 2016; and how many new sites were provided in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme delivers a comprehensive range of reproductive health services. These may include family planning, health education and safe abortion. As the programme takes an integrated approach to family planning, these services are not disaggregated, so funding to support safe abortion cannot be reported on separately.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:25:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

810117

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Adam Smith Institute and Legatum Institute
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in which countries in Africa has her Department commissioned work from (a) the Adam Smith Institute and (b) the Legatum Institute in the last three years; and what the nature of that work is.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	120583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>DFID has not directly commissioned any work from the Adam Smith Institute or the Legatum Institute in the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 08/01/2018 10:27:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

749455

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Arts
	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 support creative industries across Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	3591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>As set out in DFID’s Economic Development Strategy, which I launched earlier this year, we are helping African countries to improve their investment climates so that new industries can flourish. This includes tackling constraints on start-ups, job creation and investment which will help the creative industries along with other emerging businesses in Africa to succeed.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/07/2017 16:47:27 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah