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862133

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	what proportion of her Department's staff are (a) female and (b) male.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	132552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>As of 28 February 2018, DFID have 55.4% female and 44.6% male employees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 16:33:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

862132

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	EU Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it is the Government’s policy to continue to contribute to EU International Development efforts after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	132551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister set out in her speech in Munich, the UK is seeking a broad and deep partnership with the EU and provided detail on how the UK future security partnership with the EU will work. It is in our mutual interests to be strong development partners after the UK has left the EU, and that we work coherently in response to specific crises overseas and helping the world’s most vulnerable.</p><p>Where we hold shared commitments and objectives it is in our mutual interests to find ways to continue working together, on a case-by-case basis, to ensure that we can collectively draw on expertise, to achieve our global development objectives and to deliver the best value for money.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 16:33:36 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

862131

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Central African Republic: Job Creation
	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 help increase job opportunities for adults in the Central African Republic.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	132550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is one of the largest donors to the crisis in the Central African Republic and is contributing £40 million in humanitarian aid from 2016-2019. Over 75% of the country’s working population relies on agriculture which has been affected by years of conflict and instability. Our support is helping some 300,000 people to restart their livelihoods and grow their own crops</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 16:39:26 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

862050

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Zimbabwe: Emigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the Zimbabwean diaspora in the UK to return to Zimbabwe.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	132469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office regularly meets representatives from the Zimbabwean diaspora to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe.</p><p>The UK continues to call for free and fair elections and has called on the Zimbabwean Government to forge a new path free from oppression and misrule and to deliver a full programme of political and economic reform.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 20/03/2018 17:45:51 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin previous answer version 48369 answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

862117

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Democratic Republic of Congo: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken in partnership with his international counterparts to encourage the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to adhere to the terms of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	132536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following the violent clampdown on protestors on 31 December and 21 January, the UK released statements condemning the violence and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.</p><p>We continue to support the UN Joint Human Rights Office in their work to document human rights abuses and violations and to hold those responsible to account.</p><p>The UK supported a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in June 2017 mandating an international investigation into the violence in the Kasai regions. We have repeatedly told the DRC Government that this investigation must be allowed to operate unobstructed, to hold those responsible in the Kasais to account.</p><p>We have also called upon the DRC Government, as an HRC member, to demonstrate its commitment to the highest human rights standards and take decisive action against human rights abuses and violations.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/03/2018 16:36:45 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

862118

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Democratic Republic of Congo: Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo to support the supply of humanitarian assistance to its citizens.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	132537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The British Government regularly discusses support to humanitarian operations by the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, with our international counterparts including with the Secretary General’s Special Representative, Leila Zerrougi. We will ensure that support to humanitarian operations remains part of MONUSCO’s mandate when it is renewed this month.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/03/2018 16:49:38 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

862237

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2017 to Question 117050, on armed conflict: schools, what assessment the Government has made of the implications of signing the Safe Schools Declaration; and whether it plans to sign that declaration.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	132656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The internal Foreign and Commonwealth Office review into our position towards the Safe Schools Declaration recently concluded. The Government is now considering its implications on a cross-departmental basis and is assessing the next steps.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 17:26:46 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law