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1184314

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date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians: Textbooks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when it is planned to publish the findings of the review established by her Department, the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and other international partners of the books included in the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	28000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK government is deeply concerned about allegations of incitement in Palestinian Authority’s school textbooks. The UK secured EU agreement to commission the Georg Eckert Institute to conduct an independent review of the textbooks, which is underway. We expect interim findings by June 2020 and full findings later in the year.</p><p>We continue to encourage the EU to publish the findings. The International Development Secretary reiterated our concerns in a call to the Palestinian Authority’s Education Minister just last month.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 18/03/2020 17:12:06 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1184319

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Kiribati: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to allocate aid to Kiribati to support policy in relation to (a) rising sea levels and (b) human displacement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	28005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK does not have a bilateral aid programme in Kiribati. Most of our support to Pacific Island Countries (PICs), including Kiribati, is provided through multilateral institutions and key climate change funds, which have a strong presence and deep expertise in the region.</p><p>The UK is acutely aware of the unique vulnerabilities that climate change poses to Kiribati and other PICs and we are actively using our influence in the UN and multilateral development banks to raise their concerns on issues such as natural disasters and climate change.</p><p>The UK is the largest contributor to the Green Climate Fund and the World Bank’s International Development Association, and the largest European donor to the Asian Development Fund, which have all provided a significant increase in support to the Pacific over recent years. This support is helping the most vulnerable countries like Kiribati adapt to climate change, including to human displacement and risks related to rising sea levels.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 16/03/2020 17:57:22 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1184320

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Maldives: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to allocate aid to the Maldives to support policy in relation to (a) rising sea levels and (b) human displacement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	28006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK does not have a bilateral aid programme related to climate change in the Maldives. Most of our support to the Maldives is provided through multilateral institutions and key climate change funds.</p><p>The UK is acutely aware of the unique vulnerabilities that climate change poses to small island developing states, such as the Maldives, and we are actively using our influence in the UN and multilateral development banks to raise their concerns on issues such as natural disasters and climate change.</p><p>We are the largest contributor to the Green Climate Fund and the World Bank’s International Development Association, the largest European donor to the Asian Development Fund, and a significant contributor to the Green Environment Facility, which are all helping the most vulnerable countries like the Maldives adapt to climate change, including human displacement and risks related to rising sea levels.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/03/2020 17:44:49 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1184346

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, from which budget allocation the £46 million package for funding a coronavirus vaccine has come from.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	28023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The global race to find a vaccine for coronavirus has been bolstered by our £46 million package which has been funded from the UK ODA Crisis Reserve, which was established as part of the UK Aid Strategy in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 16/03/2020 17:57:51 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1184418

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Budget March 2020
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to footnote 1 on page 28 and footnote 2 on page 29 of the Budget 2020 Red Book on Capital DEL and Resource DEL, if she will publish the detailed proposals for transfers of spending to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other Government Departments for 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	28070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>My Department will provide details of all budget transfers to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other Government Departments in our Memorandum to the International Development Committee on the publication of the department’s Main Supply Estimate.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 16/03/2020 17:58:20 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1183907

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Non-governmental Organisations
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 Answer of 29 April 2019 to Question 247112 on Gaza: Non-governmental Organisations, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Government’s support of the UN Access Coordination Unit in helping that organisation to achieve its objective of facilitating humanitarian access for UN and NGO workers to and from Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	27657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK supports the UN’s Access Coordination Unit (ACU), which works to ensure humanitarian access to Gaza for UN and NGO workers by intervening when Israeli travel permits are delayed. We assess that the ACU has been instrumental in facilitating such access, with more than 1500 humanitarian personnel receiving assistance between April 2019 and September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 17/03/2020 17:45:01 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1183970

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
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: Tuberculosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance her Department allocated to tackling tuberculosis in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	27521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>DFID invests in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria as the principal mechanism to combat TB. The UK is currently the second largest investor in the Global Fund, pledging £1.4 billion to the 6<sup>th</sup> Replenishment (2020 – 2022) and £1.2 billion for the 5<sup>th</sup> Replenishment (2017-2019).</p><p>As our investment in the Global Fund has increased our bilateral programmes have decreased. Bilateral spending on TB control in 2018, which we publish by calendar year, was £1,862,966.</p><p>We also fund research on TB, including to develop more effective diagnostics and treatment, programmes to support countries to strengthen their health systems. Additionally, we significantly invest into health multilaterals such as the World Health Organisation and Unitaid, which provide technical leadership on tackling TB and strengthening health systems, support the introduction of new drugs for drug-resistant TB and the development of paediatric TB medicines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries.</p><p>Data on UK aid expenditure is published each year and can be accessed from the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 17/03/2020 17:43:34 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1183975

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Refugees: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance her Department has allocated to supporting refugees and displaced persons in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	27525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK is strongly committed to supporting refugees and other displaced people and remains at the forefront of refugee responses around the world. To date, we have provided over £3.1 billion in response to the Syrian conflict, our largest ever response to a single humanitarian crisis, and since August 2017 £256 million for the Rohingya crisis. That has included immediate, life-saving aid such as food, shelter and clean water, as well as longer-term support such as jobs, livelihoods and access to education and health care.</p><p>We are one of largest donors to the UN’s Refugee agency and have helped develop and champion the Global Compact on Refugees, which supports long-term and holistic approaches to assistance and protection.</p><p>The UK is one of the biggest humanitarian donors world-wide and between April 2015 and March 2019, we reached 32.4 million people with humanitarian assistance (food aid, cash and voucher transfers). Between 2014 and 2018, DFID provided over £6 billion of bilateral humanitarian funding to people in need, including refugees and displaced people.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 17/03/2020 17:56:26 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1184004

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Polio: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Official Development Assistance her Department allocated to programmes tackling Polio in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	27608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK is a long standing supporter of efforts to eradicate polio, providing consistent support to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) since 1995. We are the second largest state donor to this programme and have provided a total of £1.3 billion to date. In September 2019 Ministers also approved a new £400 million investment for the 2020 – 2023 period, bringing our total investment to £1.7 billion.</p><p>Transmission of wild poliovirus is now only present in two countries compared to 124 when GPEI was formed in 1988, and cases of paralysis have reduced in that time from 350,000 a year to 175 last year.</p><p>In the 2018-2019 period, the UK provided a total of £50 million to programmes to specifically tackle polio; £4 million to Gavi the Vaccine Alliance for the purchase of polio vaccines, and £46 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which contributed to the vaccination of over 400 million children.</p><p>The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership with six core partners, including the World Health Organisation and Rotary International. The UK works closely with these partners to eradicate polio from these last few parts of the world.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 17/03/2020 17:38:21 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1184056

registered interest
date	10/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Humanitarian Aid: Children
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 protect vulnerable girls and boys from (a) violence and (b) child marriage in humanitarian emergency situations.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	27686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>DFID is providing significant support to protect children from violence around the world in humanitarian crises. Our programmes assist children and reduce their risks of violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect.</p><p>In August 2019 at the G7 Summit, the UK Prime Minister announced £90 million of new UK support for education in emergencies and crises across the world. This will support 600,000 children living in conflict areas and areas of protracted crises. Girls are 2.5 times more likely to be out of school in emergencies and are more susceptible to child marriage and other forms of abuse and exploitation. This investment is a key part of the PM’s plan to ensure more girls benefit from 12 years of quality education. This funding will provide safe spaces for girls and psycho-social support to those who have experienced violence and trauma.</p><p>The UK’s Humanitarian Reform Policy puts the protection of vulnerable populations, including children, at the centre of the UK’s humanitarian work. DFID’s core funding to UN agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement helps them to fulfil their unique roles within the humanitarian sector, including promoting compliance of International Humanitarian Law and protecting children against violence.</p><p>Tackling child marriage, including in emergencies, is a key priority for the UK. Through DFID’s flagship global programme, Accelerating Action to End Child Marriage, the UK has supported nearly 3 million girls to attend school, skills training and girls’ clubs in 2018 alone, helping to prevent and respond to child marriage in countries with a high prevalence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 17/03/2020 17:40:06 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt