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518301

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
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: Hotels
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 cost to the public purse of hotel bookings her Department made for its (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	36794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>In line with UK government commitments to increase transparency, DFID publishes details on our spend, including data on expenses, travel and hotel costs on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics" target="_blank">GOV.UK.</a> Publication includes all spend which, in compliance with HM Treasury guidance, does not compromise national or personal security, foreign relations or legal obligations under acts such as the Data Protection Act.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 11/05/2016 16:28:10 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

450003

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Libya: Overseas Aid
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 1 February 2016 to Question 24446, what reports her Department has received from the International Committee of the Red Cross on the spending by that body of humanitarian relief funds from her Department for humanitarian relief in Libya.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	25507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>DFID’s £2 million funding to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Libya was given in response to their 2015 Budget Extension Appeal. The ICRC will submit to DFID, in accordance with agreed ICRC standard reporting timelines, an Annual Report, Financial Report and Annual Audited Accounts by June 2016.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 05/02/2016 14:45:46 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

448388

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Libya: 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 her Department has made of the value of funding her Department has allocated to Libya which has been spent in the city of Sirte; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	24446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>Due to security and access issues, we estimate that no DFID funding allocated to Libya was spent in the city of Sirte last year. DFID provided £2 million in aid to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for humanitarian relief, protection and immediate lifesaving assistance to vulnerable populations in Libya in 2015. This humanitarian programme is providing assistance to internally displaced persons across Libya, including those from the wider region of Sirte.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 01/02/2016 17:53:59 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

447266

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) financial and (b) material support her Department is providing to facilitate the provision of education for children in conflict zones; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	23868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p><strong>Draft answer </strong></p><p>The UK is one of the biggest bilateral donors to basic education in low income countries. DFID has bilateral education programmes in 21 Low Income Countries, some of which are fragile or conflict affected. Between 2010 and 2015 DFID supported 11m children in school across these 21 countries. DFID has again pledged, in our manifesto commitments, to support 11m girls and boys with a decent education between 2015 and 2020. Through our flagship £355 million Girls’ Education Challenge we will enable up to 1 million of the world’s most marginalised girls to benefit from an education of sufficient quality and transform their lives, including countries such as Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.</p><p>DFID is supporting improvements to how the international community provides education in emergencies, including leadership to establish the ‘No Lost Generation’ Initiative to provide over 251,000 Syrian children with education inside Syria and in the region. At the Conference on Supporting Syria and the Region that will be held in London this week, we want the international community to agree a new goal that all Syrian refugee children and affected host country children are in education – formal school or non-formal – by the end of 2016/17. At the Conference our ambition is that international donors, governments from countries in the region hosting refugees, non-governmental organisations and the private sector come together to agree a set of reciprocal financial and policy commitments. This will be a new model for providing education to children in a protracted crisis.</p><p>DFID is also financing, with partners, a technical design process for a new Global Platform and Financing Facility for education in emergencies to improve how education is delivered globally in crisis. It is envisaged that this new Platform will be launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in May.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/02/2016 17:51:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

447267

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Libya: Reconstruction
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 spent on rebuilding projects in Libya since 2011; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	23869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>DFID’s work in Libya falls under two main objectives: humanitarian assistance to those affected by the conflict; and the promotion of long-term stability in support of the political agreement. DFID has not funded any rebuilding (infrastructure) projects in Libya to date.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 01/02/2016 17:52:17 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

447269

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	UNICEF: Finance
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 financial support her Department has provided to the United Nations Childrens' Fund in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	23870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The core and non-core contributions (in £ millions) made by DFID to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from 2009/10 until 2013/14 can be found in the table below. These figures are taken from DFID’s internal data sources and DFID's publication 'Statistics on International Development'.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Delivery Channel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DFID core funding to UNICEF</p></td><td><p>21.0</p></td><td><p>23.6</p></td><td><p>40.0</p></td><td><p>40.0</p></td><td><p>46.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DFID non-core funding to UNICEF</p></td><td><p>113.9</p></td><td><p>127.4</p></td><td><p>207.1</p></td><td><p>192.3</p></td><td><p>270.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total DFID funding to UNICEF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 134.9 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 151.0 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 247.1 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 232.3 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 316.1 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data for 2014/15 will be included in the next release of DFID's 'Statistics on International Development' publication. This is due for release in February 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 01/02/2016 17:46:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

443964

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
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: Migrant Camps
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 11 January 2016 to Question 21331, if she will publish the progress reports received to date from funded agencies in receipt of Syria crisis response funds.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	21960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Under the Government's transparency commitment, information is published each month on DFID’s Development Tracker website (<a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk</a>) on all projects in Jordan and Lebanon. This enables public scrutiny of project documents, budgets and expenditure. Where possible, all DFID Annual Reviews and Project Completion Reports for Syria Crisis response projects are published. In some instances details of operations need to be withheld from publication on the grounds of protecting the safety of staff and humanitarian partners. Progress and monitoring reports completed by UN agencies and NGO partners are used to inform the DFID reporting process but are not published by DFID.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 14/01/2016 14:36:55 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

443057

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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: Migrant Camps
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 5 January 2016 to Question 20540, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the distribution of Syria crisis response funds in (a) Lebanon and (b) Jordan; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	21331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>To date, the UK has allocated £304 million in Lebanon and £193 million in Jordan to support Syrian refugees and vulnerable host communities. This allocation has effectively delivered humanitarian and development support where needs are greatest and most unmet across both countries. For example, as of June 2015 in Jordan and Lebanon respectively, 1,684,800 and 2,032,500 food rations have been delivered providing food for one person for one month.</p><br /><p>The effectiveness of the UK’s humanitarian response in Jordan and Lebanon is assessed regularly through progress reports from funded agencies monitoring their achievements against plans outlined in their funding agreements. Progress is followed up through regular discussions and periodic field monitoring visits to project sites by DFID staff based in our Embassies in Amman and Beirut and from our headquarters in the UK. In addition, projects are formally reviewed on an annual basis and in some cases we also commission independent evaluations.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 11/01/2016 13:36:24 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

439004

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
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: Migrant Camps
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 15 December 2015 to Question 19180, how her Department calculates how to allocate refugee support funding to recipient countries; what information her Department holds on how the distribution of that funding is allocated by the recipient country; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	20540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK has allocated £559 million, of an overall £1.12 billion contribution to the Syria crisis response, to support refugees in the region and vulnerable host communities. This includes £304 million in Lebanon, £193 million in Jordan and the remainder across the region. The UK prioritises its assistance according to where needs are greatest and most unmet, guided by assessments including the UN appeals, and the capacity of the host country to absorb refugees.</p><br /><p>In line with the key humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality, we work with trusted humanitarian partners with experience of operating in fragile and conflict affected states, to ensure that aid is delivered to people on a needs basis. In 2015/16 DFID is working with 18 humanitarian partners in neighbouring countries. These include UN agencies, international organisations, NGOs and civil society organisations.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/01/2016 11:46:57 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

436305

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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: Migrant Camps
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which refugee camps in (a) Turkey, (b) Jordan, (c) Iraq and (d) Lebanon have received financial and material support from her Department; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	19180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of the response to the crisis in Syria and the region. To date, we have pledged over £1.1 billion. Of this total we have allocated £304 million in Lebanon, £193 million in Jordan, £34 million to Turkey, £19 million to Iraq and the remainder across the region.</p><br /><p>We have not earmarked our funding for specific refugee camps across the region. We support a range of partners including the UN and international non-governmental organisations that work both in camps and in host communities to provide a range of support for refugees. This includes shelter, water, healthcare and education. The vast majority of refugees in countries neighbouring Syria live in host communities. There are no formal camps in Lebanon; rather refugees are disbursed across the country in host communities.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 15/12/2015 12:45:57 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne previous answer version 35396 answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham