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	date	15/03/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	UN High-level Panel on Access to Medicines
	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 mandate of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines and its potential to improve access to affordable and quality medicines across the world.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL7029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK is committed to ensuring access to low cost, effective medicines in the developing world, providing a range of other significant inputs to increasing access to essential medicines.</p><p> </p><p>A new £1 billion fund – the Ross Fund - was recently announced with the aim of developing, testing and delivering a range of new products to help combat the world’s most serious diseases, such as malaria, Ebola and TB in developing countries.</p><p> </p><p>We support the provision of essential medicines and other health products through innovative global partnerships such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNITAID, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). We work to strengthen systems weaknesses, such as weak supply chains or poor procurement, which deter private investment, keep medicines prices high or lead to misuse or waste of medicines. We also place a great emphasis on research and development of new vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for conditions that affect millions of poor people. For example, the UK is a leading investor in public-private Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), designed to stimulate research and development (R&amp;D) where market incentives are insufficient.</p><p> </p><p>We support the aims of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines. For it to fulfil its potential to improve access to affordable and quality medicines it will need to take a balanced approach, building and urge them to build on the WHO Global Strategy and Plan of Action (including underlying in-depth reports and discussions), and engaging withe existing global partnerships, and use its influence to galvanise Member States, public and private sectors around a common approach to this important issue.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 31/03/2016 15:02:45 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

484870

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference
	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 benefits of including representatives from the Department for International Development in discussions and representation at the Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference that will take place in Uruguay from 13 to 15 July.
	tabling member printed	Lord Cashman
	uin	HL7373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK will send a delegation to the Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference taking place in Montevideo in July. We are committed to working with those countries that will be represented at the conference, and others, to combat discrimination and violence against LGB&amp;T people. This forms an important part of our wider international human rights work. DFID is assessing the benefits of including representatives from the department at the Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference through discussion with key lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&amp;T) organisations and with other government departments. The Global LGBTI Human Rights Conference will provide an opportunity to share information, best practice and lessons learned with partners and to discuss how to better coordinate international efforts to support the promotion and protection of the rights of LGB&amp;T people worldwide.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 31/03/2016 15:44:25 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	4340 label Biography information for Lord Cashman

484527

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost to the UK of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative; which ten countries have benefited most financially from the scheme; and which countries have performed best in terms of debt servicing and repayment.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
	uin	HL7304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>To date 36 countries have benefited from the HIPC Initiative. As a result, many developing countries have seen a marked improvement in their debt position and growth over the last 15 years. The recipients that have benefited most by committed volume are: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Uganda.</p><p>Many countries saw substantial reductions in their debt servicing as a result of HIPC debt relief. The largest reductions in terms of the ratio of debt service to exports were Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe and, Sierra Leone which all saw a fall of more than 10%.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 31/03/2016 15:53:29 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
	tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich