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1038509

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: 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 measure and monitor (a) the number and (b) standard and quality of the jobs created by UK development assistance.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	206881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Creating more and better jobs is fundamental to reducing poverty, enhancing global prosperity and helping countries overcome the need for aid. As developing countries generate better quality jobs, opportunities for UK trade and investment increase.</p><p> </p><p>DFID’s Economic Development Strategy commits the UK to supporting more and better jobs as a means of delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. As published in DFID’s annual report, DFID is developing its monitoring of numbers of people supported to have raised incomes or obtain or maintain better jobs or livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>DFID encourages suppliers and their supply chains to comply with ILO standards on Decent Work and it supports a number of initiatives that raise job quality and standards by firms that invest in low income countries. The UK has made expertise from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) available to partner Governments to support better quality labour market monitoring.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is continually looking at how best to measure and monitor both the number and quality of jobs that our initiatives support. DFID is working closely on this with partners including CDC, the World Bank, the ILO and the UK Office of National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:36:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1038510

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff from her Department will be relocated to other government departments in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	206882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>DFID is currently working with the Cabinet Office to understand the needs of other government departments for short term support and, if required, will seek to match these to the resource identified as being available for redeployment. DFID have already deployed 12 staff members on short-term loan to DEFRA with a further 13 identified to deploy before the end of January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:36:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1038550

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK aid Ethopia has received in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	206764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Ethiopia has received the following amount of direct UK bilateral official development assistance (ODA) in each of the last 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>UK Bilateral ODA spend in Ethiopia, £ million, 2008-2017</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>UK Bilateral ODA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>140.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>219.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>263.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>344.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>265.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>329.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>321.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>338.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>334.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>326.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Statistics on International Development</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2019 17:30:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1037111

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many non-disclosure agreements her Department has signed with (a) companies and (b) trade associations advising the Government on preparations for contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	205945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Development (DFID) does not have any non-disclosure agreements with organisations to provide advice to the Department on preparations for contingency planning for the UK’s exit from the EU without a deal.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2019 17:29:41 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1037118

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Cameroon: Internally Displaced People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken to support the safe return of Cameroonian internally displaced persons in the Far North Region.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	206013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Our support to the displaced population in the Far North of Cameroon is focused on immediate humanitarian assistance. There are over 227,000 internally displaced Cameroonians and almost 100,000 refugees from Nigeria in the region. In 2018 we provided £2.3 million of lifesaving assistance to support the humanitarian needs of this population, including for protection, nutrition, health, food security and livelihoods.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2019 17:32:12 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1037119

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Cameroon: Internally Displaced People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department is taking to support the humanitarian needs and safe return of anglophone Cameroonian internally displaced persons.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	206014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Development recently announced a £2.5m contribution to the UN appeal for the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon to support internally displaced persons, with £2 million disbursed immediately to UNICEF. This support will begin to: treat 1,300 children who are most at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition; provide essential drugs to treat 5,700 children for deadly diseases such as malaria, diarrhoea, and acute respiratory infections; provide 10,000 people with water and sanitation kits including water purification supplies and other household items including washable sanitary napkins and tooth brushes; provide 2,000 mosquito-nets to prevent malaria; vaccinate 3,500 children against measles; and identify and support many unaccompanied children.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/01/2019 17:33:26 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1037125

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Indonesia: Tsunami
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance the Government has given to Indonesia following the tsunami in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	205931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Following the Sunda Strait tsunami in Banten and Lampung provinces of Indonesia, the Secretary of State for International Development offered her condolences and expressed the UK’s readiness to offer international assistance in the response to the disaster. While the Indonesian Government has not requested any international assistance to the response, the UK remains in close contact and stands ready to help.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:39:49 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037144

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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: Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2018 to Question 201561, what support her Department provides to the private sector to help make safe nutritious foods more affordable and accessible to (a) women, (b) adolescent girls, (c) children under five and (d) other poor people.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	205801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>DFID supports private sector innovation and investment in value chains and markets for nutritious foods. This is done both by offering businesses technical assistance and access to finance for investments, and by working to remove inefficiencies in agri-food value chains. Alongside this, DFID funds research and development of nutritious crops and agricultural technologies and supports their commercial scale-up. DFID also works to strengthen the enabling environment to make it more conducive for companies to invest in nutritious foods and associated inputs, technologies and services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, DFID supports accountability mechanisms like the Access to Nutrition Index and the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network to further incentivise more responsible business action on nutrition. DFID’s work in this area gives priority to improving nutrition outcomes for women, adolescents, children under five and other poor people, as set out in the Nutrition Position paper <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652122/nutrition-paper-2017a.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/652122/nutrition-paper-2017a.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:38:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake