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649411

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he plans to (a) expand or (b) reduce the number of countries eligible for Prosperity Fund Projects in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	55868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Cross-government Prosperity Fund is primarily Official Development Assistance (ODA) and is open to all countries that remain ODA eligible under the OECD Development Assistance Committee classification. Detailed design of the Prosperity Fund is still ongoing, and in order to maximise impact, Ministers have agreed that the Fund should concentrate on countries with large numbers of poor people and that still face significant development challenges but which are also key for driving future global prosperity. Those countries will be kept under regular review throughout the duration of the Fund.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 15:38:11 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

649412

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what official development assistance funding has been allocated to the Prosperity Fund for 2016-17 by (a) recipient country and (b) sector.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	55859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>For the first year of the fund, 2016-17, the Cross-government Prosperity Fund has allocated Official Development Assistance across a range of programmes, focusing primarily on countries, but also focusing on certain key sectors.</p><p><strong>Countries</strong></p><p>Approximately £39 million was allocated by country, broken down as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>​<strong>AFRICA</strong> ​</p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>AMERICAS​</strong> ​</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Kenya</p></td><td><p>​£651,000</p></td><td><p>​Argentina</p></td><td><p>£76,000​</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Mozambique</p></td><td><p>​£81,000</p></td><td><p>​Brazil</p></td><td><p>​£3.8 m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Nigeria</p></td><td><p>​£752,000</p></td><td><p>​Chile</p></td><td><p>​£846,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​South Africa</p></td><td><p>​£471,000</p></td><td><p>​Colombia</p></td><td><p>​£923,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Southern Africa Region</p></td><td><p>​£384,000</p></td><td><p>​Mexico</p></td><td><p>​£4.6 m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Africa Region</p></td><td><p>£769,000​</p></td><td><p>​Peru</p></td><td><p>​£1.5 m</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>​<strong>ASIA PACIFIC</strong> ​</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>​<strong>EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA ​</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​Burma</p></td><td><p>​£407,000</p></td><td><p>​EECA Region</p></td><td><p>£230,000​</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​China</p></td><td><p>​£9.8 m</p></td><td><p>​Kazakhstan</p></td><td><p>​</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​Indonesia</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£634,000</p></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="1"><p>​<strong>MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA</strong> ​</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​Malaysia</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£584,000</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​Iran</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>£307,000​</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​Philippines</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£646,000</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​Jordan</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£1.5 m</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​SE Asia Region</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£946,000</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​Lebanon</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>£1.5 m</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​Thailand</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£169,000</p></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="1"><p>​<strong>SOUTH ASIA ​</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1"><p>​Vietnam</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​£880,000</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>​India</p></td><td rowspan="1"><p>£5.4 m​</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Sectors </strong></p><p>Just over £10 million was allocated to sectors and programmes for 2016/17 as follows:</p><ul><li>​Anti-Corruption: £5m</li><li>Commonwealth Marine Economies: £5.6m</li></ul> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 15:36:57 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

649413

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of official development assistance spending allocated to the Prosperity Fund in 2016-17 was provided to (a) companies, (b) non-governmental organisations, (c) educational institutions, (d) scientific institutions, (e) trade bodies and (f) financial or legal institutions headquarted or registered in (i) the UK and (ii) UK Overseas Territories.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	55875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The information required to answer this question is not held centrally and can only be collated accurately at a disproportionate cost to the department. Prosperity Fund allocations in 2016-17 were devolved to a number of government departments and across the FCO network. Each will use a range of partners to support the implementation of their projects in order to ensure impact and in line with programme best practice.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 15:16:26 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

649470

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	UN Resolutions: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the reasons were for the Government not supporting the motion in the UN General Assembly on 21 November 2016 condemning the glorification of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	55858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Government is firmly committed to tackling racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, but does not judge that endorsing UN General Assembly Resolution 70/140, passed on 21 November 2016, would have contributed positively to these goals. We consider Resolution 70/140 unbalanced and politically motivated. It does not address all contemporary forms of racism in a comprehensive way. Furthermore, it is too restrictive in its treatment of the right to freedom of expression and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association which are enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. For these reasons the UK Government did not support the Resolution.</p><p>We hope that further amendments to the Resolution, to address these concerns, will make it possible to reach a consensus in the future.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 15:08:27 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

648741

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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: Refugees
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 the Government has taken to ensure the safety of refugees in shelters in South Sudan and neighbouring countries.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	55728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>There are currently more than 200,000 Internally Displaced People being protected at UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Protection of Civilians sites across South Sudan. Through our deployment to UNMISS UK troops will provide expertise, particularly in engineering, that will help make those Protection of Civilian sites more secure. Through DFID, we are also providing more than £20 million this financial year to the neighbouring countries of Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya to help support the more than one million South Sudanese refugees who are seeking refuge there.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 11:59:10 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

648742

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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: Non-governmental Organisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with which non-governmental organisations (NGO) and NGO forums in South Sudan his Department has links.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	55729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>We recognise the critical role civil society organisations play in South Sudan, both in providing basic support to the population and in developing local level peace-building initiatives which are essential to addressing the longer term impact of the conflict. We work closely with many of these NGOs, sharing information and analysis, and providing support where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 06/12/2016 12:01:51 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

648744

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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	Syria: International Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his international counterparts on coordinating the delivery of aid to the city of Aleppo; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	55778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>​The Foreign Secretary has discussed our deep concerns about the appalling humanitarian situation with Secretary Kerry and other key partners on a regular basis, including when he hosted a meeting in London on 16 October. The Prime Minister discussed the situation in Aleppo with the leaders of the US, Germany, Italy, France, Spain when she attended a summit in Berlin on 18 November. The Foreign Secretary asked the Russian Foreign Minister on 22 November to use his influence with the Syrian regime to let aid into Aleppo. Our Ambassador to the United Nations has repeated these message in the UN, most recently during the UK and French called emergency session of the Security Council on 30 November. The opposition have agreed the UN's four point plan for Aleppo. The regime needs to also. They could do this in a moment.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/12/2016 14:24:31 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

648746

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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	Syria: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of civilian casualties across Syria since the conflict began; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	55777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>​It is difficult to obtain precise figures about casualties in Syria. In a stark demonstration of the extent of the tragedy, the UN ceased issuing casualty figures in 2014. UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura estimated in April 2016 that 400,000 people had been killed in the conflict. The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that 203,000 civilians had been killed between March 2011 and November 2016 and that 92% of them were victims of the Asad regime.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/12/2016 14:20:29 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

647713

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	Sudan: Arrests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the government of Sudan on the recent arrest of opposition party leaders in that country.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	55454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2016 answer text <p>We are deeply concerned at the recent arrests of a number of opposition party leaders in Sudan, and have raised our concerns directly with the government of Sudan in both London and Khartoum. Most recently, the UK Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan raised this issue with the Sudanese Ambassador to London on 30 November.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 02/12/2016 14:45:09 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

647714

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
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	Israel: Palestinians
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 resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	55476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government believes a negotiated two-state solution is in the firm interests of both Israel and the Palestinians. We are working through international organisations, including the UN and EU, to encourage both sides to take steps that rebuild trust - crucial for negotiations to succeed. Arab states also have a key role in the peace process and we are discussing with them ways we can move the situation forward. And we are in contact with the French about their initiative, launched in January, aimed at securing progress in the situation.</p><p>But whilst we are doing all we can, ultimately peace will only come through negotiations between the parties. It is critical that Israel and the Palestinians take advantage of any momentum gathered through international efforts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/12/2016 15:49:37 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson