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1184311

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	Palestinians: Textbooks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the (a) outcomes and (b) recommendations of the planned EU review of Palestinian textbooks.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	27997
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; and secured an independent EU-funded review of the textbooks which is underway. We expect interim findings to be due by June 2020 and full findings later in the year. We continue to encourage the EU to publish the report.</p><p>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 17:16:21 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1184312

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	UNRWA: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make representations to UNWRA on ensuring that it allocates resources on the basis of need.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	27998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK recognises the United Nations Relief Works and Agency’s (UNWRA) unique mandate from the UN General Assembly, to support Palestinian refugees until a lasting political settlement is reached, which determines their final status. The UK is committed to funding UNRWA to meet humanitarian need and promote regional security. Officials are in regular contact with UNRWA to ensure high quality aid delivery and judge that UNRWA is effective in allocating resources on the basis of need.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 18/03/2020 17:24:46 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1184313

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	Palestinians: Textbooks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policies of the September 2019 report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education on the content of school textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	27999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK government is deeply concerned about the allegations of incitement in Palestinian Authority’s school textbooks in the report published by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education in September 2019.</p><p>At the UK’s insistence, the EU agreed to fund an independent review of the textbooks which is underway. We expect interim findings to be due in Spring 2020 and full findings later in the year. 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 17:20:52 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

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

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

1184199

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	Palestinians: Textbooks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of school books published by the Palestinian Authority containing incitement to hatred and violence.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
uin	HL2466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK government is deeply concerned about allegations of incitement in the Palestinian Authority’s school textbooks. The UK secured EU agreement to lead 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>The International Development Secretary reiterated our concerns in a call to the Palestinian Authority’s Education Minister just last month.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/03/2020 17:42:41 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

1184210

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	Females: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the UN Development Programme's Gender Social Norms Index, published on 5 March, in particular of the high percentage of people reported as holding at least one bias against women in relation to politics, economics, education, violence or reproductive rights.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL2477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>These findings are very concerning, but consistent with other evidence. The most recent World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report suggests growing disparity between women and men for a second year running in political empowerment, access to health and education and participation in the labour force.</p><p>Gendered norms and discriminatory social norms underpin the lack of progress towards gender equality and empowerment of girls and women worldwide.</p><p>That is why, at the heart of DFID’s Strategic Vision for Gender Equality is a call to action to challenge and change the unequal power relations between men and women, and the negative attitudes and discriminatory practices that hold girls and women back.</p><p>Rigorous evaluations conducted under DFID’s flagship What Works to Prevent Violence Programme have shown that it is possible to shift social norms within the timeframe of a programme. Approaches that engaged whole communities to challenge harmful norms achieved significant reductions in Violence Against Women and Girls of around 50%.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 19/03/2020 17:46:45 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1183297

registered interest
date	06/03/2020
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: Climate Change
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 climate change adaptation projects in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	26193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department for International Development (DFID) spent £482 million in 2016, £371 million in 2017 and £522 million in 2018 on climate change adaptation projects as part of its share of UK international climate finance. 2019 figures are not yet available.</p><p>The UK has committed to spend £5.8 billion on international climate finance from the Official Development Assistance budgets of DFID, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) over the period 2016-17 to 2020-21. DFID’s share is £3.6 billion over the same period. The UK aims to achieve a balance between projects to tackle climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 11/03/2020 17:06:47 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1183210

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Hospital Ships: Procurement
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Integrated Security, Defence and Foreign Policy Review will consider the possibility of procuring a hospital ship.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL2302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>DFID and the Ministry of Defence already work closely together deploying ships to respond to humanitarian emergencies. For example, following Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas last September, RFA Mounts Bay played a critical role in the UK response.</p><p>The integrated review is the deepest review of the UK’s foreign, defence, security and development policy since the end of the Cold War.</p><p>It will establish the strategic aims for our national security and foreign policy, determining the capabilities and structural reforms needed to meet those aims and how we will work with international partners and organisations to promote the UK’s interests around the world.</p><p>No decision has been made on the construction or operation of a UK hospital ship, and we will continue to ensure that UKaid is deployed in a way that maximises value for money for development and the UK taxpayer.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/03/2020 17:50:42 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1182298

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Hospital Ships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, where the proposed hospital ship will operate from.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	24268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2020 answer text <p>DFID and the MoD already work closely together to respond to humanitarian emergencies. For example, following Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas last September, RFA Mounts Bay played a critical role in the UK response.</p><p>As set out in the UK Humanitarian Reform Plan, the UK Government is committed ensuring a bigger, better, faster response capability which is able to respond to a range of different natural disasters. This includes a continued commitment to use our military assets to deliver humanitarian aid whenever appropriate, in accordance with UN guidelines.</p><p>No decision has been made on the construction or operation of a UK hospital ship, and we will continue to ensure that UKaid is deployed in a way that maximises value for money for development and the UK taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly grouped question UIN 24269 24429 question first answered 10/03/2020 17:20:22 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones