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864485

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date	15/03/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	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, what work has been undertaken by his Department to develop religious literacy among its staff in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	132968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>We have developed a position paper on faith and development; we continue to host seminars (such as the seminar in November on freedom of religion or belief); we have commissioned and circulated research on religion and development and have facilitated formal training. A limited number of DFID staff have already attended the newly re-launched Foreign and Commonwealth Office “Religion and Diplomacy” course. We plan to encourage more DFID staff to attend this course in the future.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 20/03/2018 15:30:35 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

806659

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Kenya: Marie Stopes International
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any of her Department's funding given to Marie Stopes International goes towards the provision of or advertising for abortion in Kenya.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>None</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/12/2017 14:33:46 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

806667

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Marie Stopes International
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of her Department's funding to Marie Stopes International in developing countries, in light of the suspension of Marie Stopes’ abortion services in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>DFID has robust monitoring and evaluation procedures to ensure UK taxpayers’ money is achieving the results we expect of it. Precise monitoring arrangements vary by project; however progress is always reviewed by DFID, on an annual basis. All of our reviews demonstrate confidence in the quality of MSI’s services in developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 21/12/2017 15:27:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

806702

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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: Abortion and Contraceptives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has rejected an application for funding on the grounds that the applicant does not provide abortion and contraception services during the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>DFID does not withhold funding on the grounds of an organisation's beliefs about reproductive health alone. To be eligible for any specific funding, however, an organisation has to be prepared to deliver the expected outputs of that project, and do so in accordance with the highest standards of evidence.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 21/12/2017 15:29:51 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

806007

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
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: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to which legislation her Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 2017 and the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 are the two pieces of development legislation passed since the Family Test was introduced. The impact of both pieces of legislation at the specific level of the family is small and indirect, and therefore the Family Test was not applied in either case.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/12/2017 15:47:14 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

805446

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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: Families
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 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen families.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	119117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Strengthening families is a cross-government objective. Through our education, nutrition, health, economic development and social protection programing, DFID aims to tackle the main factors that pull families apart.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/12/2017 15:48:05 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770043

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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: Family Planning
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 Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme, what the difference is between disability life years saved and disability adjusted life years.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	107720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>With reference to the Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme, there is no difference. The World Health Organisation’s official terminology is ‘Disability Adjusted Life Years’. This represents a year of a person’s life saved from living under the burden of poor health and disease.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:26:25 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770045

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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: Family Planning
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 number of Disability Life Years Saved in African countries under her Department's Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme; and what the financial savings accrued were in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	107675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme has averted an estimated 8 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The financial savings to national health systems since the programme’s inception is an estimated £296 million.</p><p> </p><p>The annual breakdown of estimated savings is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme Year</p></td><td><p>£, millions saved</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 1</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 3</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 4</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 5</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 6</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>296</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:25:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770054

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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: Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding from the public purse her Department has provided to organisations or individuals in African countries who support changes to regulatory policy on abortion services at a national level as part of her Department's programme Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancies in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	107651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme aims to increase access to family planning services, give women and girls more control over their lives, and reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion. Where national policies on abortion contribute to high levels of maternal death, our programme implementing partners may seek to raise awareness of these issues and support local efforts to achieve reform aimed at saving maternal lives. It is not possible to disaggregate spend on these activities specifically.</p><p>Since 2011, DFID has provided £99.8 million to the overall PMD programme which works across 17 countries.</p><p>The annual breakdown of spend is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>PMDUP/PMD Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>8,033,548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>11,520,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>16,653,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>21,219,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>17,700,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>16,557,743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>8,183,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>99,869,853</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:24:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770064

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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: Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided for new abortion service delivery sites in African countries as part of the Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme during 2011 to 2016; and how many new sites were provided in that period.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	107661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme delivers a comprehensive range of reproductive health services. These may include family planning, health education and safe abortion. As the programme takes an integrated approach to family planning, these services are not disaggregated, so funding to support safe abortion cannot be reported on separately.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:25:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce