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824396

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Palestinians: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on the Occuptied Palestinian Territories of the decision of the House of Representatives to end foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	123197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>We are working closely with the United States (US) to understand the impact of the Taylor Force Act on their programme and the implications for other donors, were it to be approved by the US Senate.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:14:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

824574

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Luton South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
	uin	123375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Yemen is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The recent escalation in fighting and restrictions on commercial and humanitarian access threaten to push the country into catastrophic famine. The UN estimates that almost 18 million people in Yemen do not have reliable access to food and over 8 million people face extreme food shortages.</p><p> </p><p>The International Development Secretary visited Djibouti and Saudi Arabia in December, where she announced a further £50 million in life-saving UK aid to provide food and fuel for millions of people. This announcement increased our support to Yemen to £205 million overall for this financial year (2017/18) making us the third-largest humanitarian donor to Yemen overall and the second-largest to the UN Humanitarian Appeal.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:21:57 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

824729

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	International Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions her Department has had with her Development Assistance Committee counterparts on changing international aid rules since her appointment as Secretary of State.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	123530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>On 9 January 2018 the Secretary of State for International Development met with the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Chair, for an introductory meeting. Since the October 2017 DAC High Level Meeting her officials have continued discussions on ODA reform, Department for International Development officials, including the UK’s representative for development to the OECD, speak regularly with their counterparts from other DAC Member States and the DAC Secretariat.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:18:20 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

824738

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to introduce new criteria for allocating her Department's overseas aid budget.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	123539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK Aid Strategy sets out that, “in allocating aid, the government will carefully consider the fit with its strategic objectives, the level of need, the ability of partner countries to finance their own development, and what support they get from others”.</p><p>Where DFID works and DFID’s allocations to different countries are kept under review to ensure UK Aid is used most effectively to achieve poverty reduction in the national interest and responds to changing global needs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:17:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

824743

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contracts her Department holds with government strategic suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	123544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>DFID currently holds 1 centrally managed contract with a Government Strategic Supplier.</p><p>Additionally, DFID pays into a small number of cross-Government corporate contracts with strategic suppliers, from central framework agreements held by the Crown Commercial Service.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:15:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

824751

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which additional countries she is currently considering providing aid to.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	123552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Where DFID works and DFID’s allocations to different countries are kept under review to ensure UK Aid is used most effectively to achieve poverty reduction in the national interest and responds to changing global needs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:16:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

825468

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Bangladesh: Migrant Camps
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate the Government has made on the number of UK humanitarian agencies seeking access to refugee camps in Bangladesh.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	123609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK regularly engages with UK NGOs in Bangladesh. All NGOs seeking to access to refugee camps and provide support in Bangladesh require the government of Bangladesh's permission to do so. The list of those requesting access is held by the government of Bangladesh.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/01/2018 17:20:20 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

824011

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Dominica: Hurricanes and Tornadoes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 21 December 2017 (HL4321), what level of support they will provide for reconstruction in Dominica following the hurricane damage.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL4756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Dominica was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The UK provided £7m in emergency support, including shelter, food and other essential supplies. We have also committed £25m to support reconstruction. These funds will be delivered through the UK Caribbean Infrastructure Fund, in partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank. A Post Disaster Needs Assessment and discussions with the government of Dominica are informing spending priorities, with a likely focus on repairing the island’s water supply system.</p><p>The UK will also provide a further £8m to strengthen regional and national level disaster response mechanisms. Some of this funding will be used to provide expertise and oversight of the island’s reconstruction programme so that funds are used in the most effective way. All UK funded reconstruction will support the key principle of building back better, so that Caribbean countries and territories are better able to withstand future hurricanes and natural disasters.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/01/2018 17:17:41 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

825635

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what procedures and checks are in place to ensure that payments made by the Department for International Development cannot be used for terrorism purposes; and whether any payments have been (1) withdrawn, (2) refused, and (3) prohibited, since the beginning of 2015 on grounds connected with actual, suspected or potential terrorism.
	tabling member printed	Lord Carlile of Berriew
	uin	HL4876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has a zero tolerance approach to UK aid funds being diverted to fund terrorist activities and the UK Government publishes a list of prescribed extremist groups or organisations banned under UK law. The Department has robust measures in place to protect, prevent, and detect the diversion of aid. We have controls embedded through-out the programme cycle including a rigorous due diligence process and a comprehensive risk management framework which requires risks to be identified prior to any disbursement of aid.</p><p>All organisations that receive funding from the Department are required to provide evidence about the use of funds, including audited financial statements which are examined as we monitor programme performance and delivery. All of our funding mechanisms allow the Department to terminate project funding early.</p><p>Where there are allegations of misuse of aid funds, these are investigated fully by the Department’s specialist Counter Fraud Unit, and funds are always recovered to the fullest extent possible. Funds subject to such diversion have been stopped in the past and will continue to be stopped should there be substantive evidence of UK aid being connected in any way to terrorist activities. The Department’s procedure is to inform the relevant UK security agencies in such circumstances and, given the sensitivity of such cases and the fact that active criminal investigations are ongoing, we cannot release further details.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/01/2018 17:16:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	1138 label Biography information for Lord Carlile of Berriew

825657

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Development Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the UK's overseas development assistance can be spent by departments other than the Department for International Development according to the rules and regulations of the OECD.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL4898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>All ODA spent by the Department for International Development, and by other government departments and contributors is in line with the rules set out by the OECD DAC.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 24/01/2018 17:18:06 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge