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1111117

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date	10/04/2019
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: Secondment
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 25 March 2019 to Question 234782 on Department for International Development: Secondment, what the length of secondment is for those 74 staff already deployed.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	243538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>DFID continues to work to support other government departments’ increased resource demands as a result of the UK’s exit from the EU, whilst ensuring continued delivery of its core business. DFID is working closely with OGDs to match to urgent EU Exit resource requirements across government. Deployment periods are varied, depending on the nature of the work required but do not exceed the Government’s no deal response period.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:16:32 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1111152

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Females: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to increase women’s equality throughout the world.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	243502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK aims to promote gender equality and secures women’s rights around the world, guided by DFID’s Strategic Vision for Gender Equality and the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. For example, through UKaid, we have given nearly 17 million women access to modern methods of family planning and supported 5.6 million girls to gain access to a decent education since 2015. We recently made the largest donor commitment ever (£50 million) to ending female genital mutilation across Africa and announced a new UK government campaign to end period poverty globally.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:14:16 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1111155

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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: Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to increase private sector involvement in delivering the global goals.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	243504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The private sector has a critical role to play in delivering the Global Goals. DFID is taking a number of steps to facilitate this, including:</p><p>- Harnessing the expertise, knowledge and resource of the UK private sector to deliver the Global Goals through the Great Partnership initiative.</p><p>- Supporting businesses to measure progress on delivering the Global Goals through our support for the World Benchmarking Alliance, launched in 2018, which will rank companies on their contributions to the Global Goals. We have also supported the Global Reporting Initiative, which helps businesses understand and communicate their impact on issues such as climate change and human rights.</p><p>- Supporting the UN Global Compact to encourage businesses to operate responsibly by aligning their strategies and operations in line with Ten Principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.</p><p>- Investing up to £3.5bn of additional capital in CDC, the UK’s Development Finance Institution, which invests in businesses across Africa and South Asia to create jobs.</p><p>- Holding a National Conversation to find out more about the public’s views on how their savings and pensions can be invested in the Global Goals, while providing a financial return.</p><p>- Deepening our partnership with the City of London, through the Sustainable Development Capital Initiative, which is aiming to develop new investment products to mobilise private investment in developing countries to deliver the Global Goals.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:15:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1110763

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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: Secondment
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 9 April 2019 to Question 239838 on Department for International Development: Secondment, how many of the 101 Departmental staff have been removed from projects and programmes in (a) Pakistan, (b) Ethiopia, (c) Nigeria, (d) South Sudan, (e) Yemen and (f) Syria to support essential work in relation to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	242663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>DFID has not deployed any staff based in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen or Syria to support other government departments with EU exit preparation.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 15:57:08 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1110860

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has allocated to each educational project in Pakistan in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	242673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>Since 2011, DFID has benefited 10 million primary and nearly 6 million secondary students in Pakistan. This support is mainly focussed on schools in the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh with our two largest sector reform programmes operating in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. In the last 3 years DFID Pakistan has spent the following on each education project:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Project</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>202328 - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Sector Programme</strong></p></td><td><p>£36.4m</p></td><td><p>£34.2m</p></td><td><p>£28.9m</p></td><td><p><strong>£99.5m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>202491 - Transforming Education in Pakistan</strong></p></td><td><p>£3m</p></td><td><p>£3m</p></td><td><p>£2m</p></td><td><p><strong>£8m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>202697 - Punjab Education Support Programme II</strong></p></td><td><p>£68.4</p></td><td><p>£64.1m</p></td><td><p>£41.6m</p></td><td><p><strong>£174.1m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>204277 - Ilm Ideas Education Innovation Programme II</strong></p></td><td><p>£3.3m</p></td><td><p>£5.5m</p></td><td><p>£8.3</p></td><td><p><strong>£17.1m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>300238 - Sindh Education Non-State Actors (SENSA) </strong></p></td><td><p>£3.1m</p></td><td><p>£3.6m</p></td><td><p>£1.8m</p></td><td><p><strong>£8.5m</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:21:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1110464

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Middle East: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps are being taken to address the humanitarian crisis which has followed the territorial defeat of Daesh.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	242066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to meeting humanitarian needs in areas of Syria and Iraq liberated from Daesh. In Northeast Syria we provided over £40 million in UK aid last year to meet urgent needs. DFID-funded partners are delivering critical activities including demining, child immunisation, nutritional supplements for children and pregnant women, and supporting primary health centres and mental health work.</p><p> </p><p>In Iraq last year, the UK also committed over £40 million of humanitarian support, providing a vital lifeline to millions of vulnerable people. Since 2014, UK funding in Iraq has helped provide: food assistance to over 408,000 people; emergency cash transfers to over 274,000 people; shelter kits, upgrades to camps and household items to over 836,500 people; life-saving healthcare services to over 4.1 million people; and safe drinking water, toilet and shower facilities to more than 2 million people.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 15:58:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1110465

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Southern Africa: Storms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to support the recovery (a) Mozambique and (b) other east coast African nations after the recent cyclone which affected those countries.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	242067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>So far, the UK has provided a package of up to £36m support to the response to Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. This UK aid funding is supporting the provision of food (through both in-kind assistance and cash transfers) to hundreds of thousands of people; life-saving relief supplies, such as family tents and hygiene kits; and child protection assistance. Up to £4m of UK aid funding will also be used to support the provision of education to affected people in Mozambique following the destruction of schools during the cyclone.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:13:42 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1109557

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Shanty Towns
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when their officials working in Pakistan last visited the shanty towns on the periphery of Islamabad to report on the conditions in which the residents live; and whether they are collecting data on the percentage of people from Pakistan’s minorities living in such areas.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>UK aid prioritises support for the poorest and most excluded people and communities in Pakistan. Thus, whilst we recognise that there are poor people living in Islamabad, UK aid is focussed in the provinces with the highest number of poor people and on strengthening capacity of those provinces to deliver basic services to their populations.</p><p> </p><p>DFID strive to visit as many programme locations as possible to gather feedback from communities, including minority communities. DFID Pakistan also has projects that work directly with minorities and aims to tackle the drivers underpinning intolerance and discrimination, through promoting greater understanding between communities.</p><p> </p><p>DFID Pakistan is striving to better disaggregate its results through a data disaggregation action plan which focuses on 4 key areas: sex, age, disability and geography. This will improve our understanding of those who benefit from our programmes. We do not currently have plans to collect data on religion as we recognise the risks associated with potentially revealing such sensitive information for religious minorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/04/2019 13:29:25 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1109558

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Minority Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reconsider their policy of disregarding the status of Pakistan’s minorities in determining and allocating development aid.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>UK aid prioritises support for the poorest and most excluded people and communities in Pakistan regardless of race, religion, social background or nationality. Our investment will not only assist Pakistan to become a more prosperous country that will help millions of its citizens living in poverty, but will also improve stability and security in Pakistan, the region, and beyond.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/04/2019 13:54:05 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1109559

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Shanty Towns
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any development funds are directed towards the rebuilding and provision of running water or electricity to Islamabad's shanty towns; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL15028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK’s work in Pakistan is focused on peace and stability, making democracy work, jobs and growth and providing basic services.</p><p> </p><p>UK aid prioritises support for the poorest and most excluded people and communities in Pakistan, thus DFID Pakistan’s bilateral programmes focus on provinces with the highest numbers of poor people and on strengthening the capacity of those provinces to deliver basic services to their populations. This includes supporting the provision of electricity and engaging with the governments regarding adequate water provision.</p><p> </p><p>While we recognise that there are poor people living in Islamabad, without access to electricity or running water, they cannot be our focus. We expect the Islamabad Capital Development Authority to support them with support received at national level from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/04/2019 13:55:04 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool