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731136

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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: Elections
	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 his Department has had with counterparts in the African Union on free and fair elections in the Republic of Zimbabwe in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The UK has engaged counterparts in the African Union– particularly the Southern African Development Community – on the 2018 Presidential elections in Zimbabwe. We have highlighted that a democratic, prosperous and stable Zimbabwe is in the interests of the whole region and urged them to do what they can to encourage free and fair elections.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 12:39:36 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

732708

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Ministers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of time joint Department for International Development-Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers will spend at her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	1046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Mr Burt and Mr Stewart will split their time between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development. They will of course prioritise based on events and issues as they arise</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 16:57:04 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

732709

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil service staff, by grade, work in her Department's Special Advisers' Office.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	1047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>DFID’s Special Advisers’ Office is supported by 2 Civil Servants at Grade B2/Executive Officers. These staff members also perform broader roles within the Secretary of State’s office and DFID’s Top Management Group.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 14:49:09 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

732710

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	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 proportion of official development assistance which will be spent by other Departments in each year until 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	1048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Table 1 below provides the estimated proportion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to be spent by other government departments and cross-government funds. Funding is dispersed across a wide range of departments and cross-government funds. Expected proportions are based on ODA budget allocations in order to meet the government’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) on ODA in each calendar year.</p><p>Table 1: Expected proportion of ODA to be spent by other government departments, 2017/18-2019/20</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>.</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2018/19</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2019/20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-DFID departmental spend (incl cross-gov funds)</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>23%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 14:52:56 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

732696

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	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	Somaliland: Election Observers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding the Government is providing for election monitoring in the 2017 elections in Somaliland.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	1239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The UK plans to fund independent international monitoring of the delayed Somaliland Presidential election, now scheduled for November 2017. Procurement is underway. The UK is providing an additional £1.4 million to support the broader Somaliland electoral cycle. The UK confirmed in an international statement on 26 January 2017 that no UK funding would be used to cover additional costs associated with electoral delays.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 16:29:13 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

731971

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Somalia: Famine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to famine relief operations in Somalia; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State visited Somalia on 17 June where she announced a further £60m uplift in UK support to drought relief operations, on top of a contribution of £110m announced last February. During her visit she said: “The UK stepped up early with support, and lobbied others to do more, which has prevented the spread of famine. We are showing our continued leadership with more food, more water and more medicine for those at imminent risk of dying from drought and conflict. The world must follow our lead and act now to put an end to humanitarian crises that threaten our global stability and help accelerate progress on peace, security and prosperity – which is firmly in everyone’s interest.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/06/2017 16:28:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

731777

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	South Sudan and Sudan: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last met his counterpart in (a) Sudan and (b) south Sudan to discuss human rights.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) has not recently met with his counterparts in Sudan and South Sudan. However, Sudan and South Sudan are human rights priority countries for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. We regularly raise our concerns with senior Ministers in both governments and, where relevant, in the United Nations.</p><p>In Sudan, our Embassy staff regularly attend trials of human rights defenders and human rights is a key objective for our biannual UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue. In South Sudan, the UK provides funding to programmes that support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. During a visit to South Sudan in May 2017, my noble Friend, the Rt Hon. Baroness Anelay of St Johns (the Prime Minister's former Special Representative for Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict) raised numerous human rights related issues with members of the government and encouraged them to take action.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/06/2017 13:47:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

731940

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Civil Servants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many civil servants of her Department will be employed to work in the private offices of the joint Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Development currently employs 9 civil servants in the private offices of the two joint DFID and FCO ministers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 27/06/2017 16:26:55 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

732366

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the ministerial responsibilities within her Department are of the new joint Department for International Development-Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>Mr Stewart and Mr Burt will build on the existing close cooperation between DFID and the FCO to strengthen the coordination of Britain's diplomatic and development work around the world. Individual responsibilities for all of our Ministers are available on our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development" target="_blank">website</a> (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/people/rory-stewart" target="_blank">Rory Stewart OBE MP</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alistair-burt" target="_blank">Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP</a>).</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 28/06/2017 15:36:07 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

731123

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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: Human 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 recent discussions his Department has had with officials of the Republic of Zimbabwe on human rights.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	91
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>​The British Government is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Zimbabwe, particularly the continuing harassment and detention of political activists ahead of Presidential elections in 2018. We frequently raise our concerns with the Zimbabwean government, urging it to end abuses and restore internationally accepted standards. Our Ambassador in Harare most recently raised these concerns with the Zimbabwean Foreign Ministry on 17 June and officials in London raised them with the Zimbabwean Embassy on 19 June.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/06/2017 12:34:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden