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971309

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Food Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who will provide expertise and advice to commercial companies under the UK-Aid food trade and resilience programme.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Technical advice to commercial companies will be provided by IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative, a Dutch and Nairobi-based non-profit public private partnership, both directly and through specialised local companies.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:21:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

971310

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Food Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) multinational and (b) sub-Saharan African companies her Department plans to allocate funding from the Food Trade and Resilience Programme.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>As the Africa Food Trade and Resilience Programme is still in design phase, it is not possible to say yet which companies will receive support. Companies will be selected following detailed market analysis and based on: their impact on local food security; number of women and men farmers in their supply chain; commitment to sustainable, inclusive and gender-sensitive business models; and willingness to contribute their own funds to programme activities.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:16:06 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

971311

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Overseas Investment
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 press release, UK launches ambition to generate billions more investment in Africa to trigger transformational growth, published on 28 August 2018, what estimate she has made of the financial benefit to UK business from those partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced a range of measures to substantially boost investment into businesses and infrastructure across Africa. The UK will invest up to an additional £4bn in Africa directly, whilst also aiming to mobilise £4bn of private investment into the continent over four years (2018-21).</p><p> </p><p>Benefits will materialise over time. UK investment in Africa supports African economies to grow, building greater opportunities for UK businesses to trade and invest with the continent in the longer-term. CDC investments in Africa build markets and demonstrate to other investors the viability of investing in the continent, creating opportunities for UK investors and businesses. Essential infrastructure, such as power and roads, supported by the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) will lay the foundations for new investible opportunities across Africa in places businesses previously would not have been able to operate, potentially creating opportunities for the UK also.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:17:43 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

971312

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Overseas Investment
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 press release, UK launches ambition to generate billions more investment in Africa to trigger transformational growth, published on 28 August 2018, which (a) businesses, and (b) sectors in the UK will benefit from the projects.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced a range of measures to substantially boost investment into businesses and infrastructure across Africa. CDC, the UK’s Development Finance Institution, will aim to invest up to £3.5bn in African businesses over four years (2018-21), and the UK will invest a further £300m into the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) to build essential infrastructure across Africa, laying the foundations for new trading and business opportunities. Through these and other initiatives, the UK will aim to mobilise a further £4bn of private investment into Africa over the next four years (2018-21).</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:23:28 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

971313

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ghana: Overseas Investment
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 press release, UK Minister for Africa visits Ghana to show support for Ghana’s vision to move beyond aid, published on 28 August 2018, which UK companies will be involved in the Jobs and Economic Transformation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Deploying the UK’s world-class development assistance to help African countries to drive private sector growth and job creation is at the centre of the UK’s new partnership with Africa. The Prime Minister made this clear in her recent visit to the continent. In Ghana, the UK’s new Jobs and Economic Transformation programme is expected to help the Ghanaian government to generate over £50 million in private investment and create 15,000 jobs. This is vital if Ghana is to achieve its ambition of moving “beyond aid”.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:19:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

971473

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Mozambique: Overseas Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on their investigation into the undisclosed loans by two London-based banks to three state owned enterprises in Mozambique.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	172591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The British High Commission in Maputo has worked with Mozambican authorities to reach out to UK authorities, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in order to clarify issues related to the three previously undisclosed loans that were divulged in 2013 and 2016. DFID has followed these conversations, and supported the work of FCO colleagues. The FCA, however, does not comment on live investigations, even to other UK government officials.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:24:26 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

969483

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Global Financing Facility
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 plans to provide for the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Every Woman Every Child initiative at the GFF replenishment conference in Autumn 2018.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	171703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>At last year’s Family Planning Summit in London, we announced £30m over 3 years to enable the Global Financing Facility (GFF) to pilot innovative financing mechanisms. This funding is still ongoing to 2020 and will increase domestic and private sector resources for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Decisions about potential future support will be taken in due course.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:22:09 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

969534

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Food Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she plans to launch the UK-aid food trade and resilience programme.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	171704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The new UK aid-supported Africa Food Trade and Resilience Programme, which will make it easier for commercial companies to buy from smallholder farmers and help to boost the income of 1.8 million farming families in Africa, is expected to start by early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:14:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

969024

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Tax Havens
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 press release, New UK aid package will stop dirty money in its tracks and recover millions of pounds for developing countries, published by the Government on 30 August 2018, whether the programme will include tackling tax havens.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	171377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Illicit finance, including tax evasion, is a problem shared by all jurisdictions with significant financial services centres. Tackling this problem is a priority for me and for my Department. DFID is working closely with the rest of Her Majesty’s Government to do more to support the efforts of key jurisdictions including offshore financial centres to strengthen their response to illicit finance.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:12:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

969025

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of access to Saada by humanitarian relief organisations after the military operations in that area in August 2018.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	171378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Insecurity, damaged infrastructure and bureaucratic constraints throughout Yemen, including in Sa’ada, continue to threaten the access of humanitarian relief organisations to the 22.2 million Yemenis in need of assistance across the country. As of August 2018, the UN assess Sa’ada district as having high access constraints.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work closely with our UN and NGO delivery partners, in Sa’ada and northern Yemen, who are operating under difficult circumstances to reach the most vulnerable. We also urge all parties to the conflict to ensure rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian and commercial access across Yemen, including in Sa’ada, and to do everything possible to protect innocent civilians and demonstrate their commitment to International Humanitarian Law.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/09/2018 16:20:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor