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1172728

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Bangladesh: 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 was allocated to Bangladesh in the last five years; what assessment he has made of the adequacy of ODA provided to that country; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	6640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>In the last five years the UK has spent £832.5 million on the DFID programme in Bangladesh. This has contributed to significant development achievements. Since 2015 UK aid has helped 1.5 million children to gain a decent education and 900 thousand people to access clean water and better sanitation. It has also provided lifesaving humanitarian support to around 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, particularly since the significant influx in August 2017.</p><p>Official budgets for financial year 20/21, approved by Ministers, will be published in DFID’s 2019/20 Annual Accounts and Report later this year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 6641 question first answered 29/01/2020 16:42:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1172729

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Bangladesh: 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 he plans to allocate to Bangladesh in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	6641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>In the last five years the UK has spent £832.5 million on the DFID programme in Bangladesh. This has contributed to significant development achievements. Since 2015 UK aid has helped 1.5 million children to gain a decent education and 900 thousand people to access clean water and better sanitation. It has also provided lifesaving humanitarian support to around 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, particularly since the significant influx in August 2017.</p><p>Official budgets for financial year 20/21, approved by Ministers, will be published in DFID’s 2019/20 Annual Accounts and Report later this year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 6640 question first answered 29/01/2020 16:42:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1171933

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	UK-Africa Investment Summit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of his departmental budget was allocated to funding accommodation for attendees of the UK-Africa investment summit 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	5573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>As with all such Government events, the full costing will be available in due course. 2020 UK ODA spend, including for this Summit, will be reported in Statistics on International Development, published by DFID in Autumn 2021.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 5574 question first answered 23/01/2020 08:20:50 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1171934

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	UK-Africa Investment Summit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget was allocated to food costs for the UK-Africa investment summit 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	5574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>As with all such Government events, the full costing will be available in due course. 2020 UK ODA spend, including for this Summit, will be reported in Statistics on International Development, published by DFID in Autumn 2021.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 5573 question first answered 23/01/2020 08:20:50 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1170949

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse to support the fulfilment of the UN sustainable development goal of education for all girls and boys; and in which countries that funding was spent.
	tabling member constituency	West Worcestershire
	tabling member printed	Harriett Baldwin
	uin	3741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <ol><li>The Prime Minister has publicly stated that education, particularly standing up for the right of every girl in the world to have 12 years of quality education, is a priority for the UK. Between 2009 and 2018, the Government spent £7.08 billion bilaterally from the public purse to support the fulfilment of the UN sustainable development goal on education. This does not include all multilateral spend. Between 2015 and 2019 DFID supported 14.8 million children to gain a decent education, of which at least 5.8 million were girls. UKAid is spent in the countries that need it the most. From 2015 to 2018, the largest number of children supported by DFID education programmes was in Africa, where the majority of out of school children live. Most of the children supported by DFID’s education programmes live in fragile states.</li></ol> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2020 09:04:07 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin

1171597

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to support the delivery of health improvements in Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	4719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The UK is a leading global health actor, supporting improved health outcomes across Africa. We work in partnership with African states, civil society and multilaterals to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>Averting preventable deaths and supporting Universal Health Coverage is the overarching goal of all UK health investments. Our priorities include: strengthening health systems; tackling specific health challenges (such as malnutrition, polio and neglected tropical diseases); leading efforts towards the manifesto commitment of ending the malaria epidemic; and supporting global health security.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is the world’s second largest bilateral donor on family planning - the Women’s Integrated Sexual Health programme alone works to prevent 24,000 maternal deaths, including in 24 African countries; the UK is also the second largest government funder of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In 2018 the Global Fund, which disbursed 72% of its funding in sub-Saharan Africa, helped provide 18.9 million people with antiretroviral therapy for HIV; test and treat 5.3 million people for TB; and distribute 131 million mosquito nets to protect families from malaria. Our £1.44 billion support to Gavi (2016-2020) will vaccinate an additional 76 million children and save 1.4 million lives in 68 of the world’s poorest countries.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/01/2020 13:30:26 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1171905

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to (a) ensure children with disabilities progress under the 12 years’ quality education for all girls by 2030 policy and (b) monitor the progress of those children.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	5458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>Through DFID’s 2018 education policy and disability strategy, the UK committed to show leadership in disability inclusion.</p><p>We are making good progress. We support the ‘Inclusive Education Initiative’ with the World Bank and Government of Norway to get children with disabilities into school and learning. Our Disability Inclusive Development programme tests what works at scale in education for children with disabilities. UK Aid supports the development and publication of the annual Global Education Monitoring report. This year’s focus is inclusive education.</p><p>DFID is also scaling up support to children with disabilities through our country education programmes. In Rwanda, UK Aid will support inclusion training of one teacher in every school, and in Ethiopia, we supported establishment of inclusive education resource centres to support teachers with inclusive practice.</p><p>We are monitoring our progress through tracking of DFID’s Disability Strategy and Education Policy.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/01/2020 13:43:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1172024

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	UK-Africa Investment Summit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what members of African civil society attended the UK-Africa investment summit.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	5519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Summit brought together, amongst others, hundreds of UK and African business representatives and representatives from Civil Society Organisations. Forty entrepreneurs from Africa, owning smaller businesses, participated. The Government has also organised more than ten events in the lead-up to, and as follow-up to, the Summit to gather views from a range of stakeholders, including African Civil Society Organisations.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2020 08:20:58 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1172087

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Somaliland: Elections
	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) other support his Department has provided in the last three months to enable parliamentary elections in Somaliland to take place.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	5435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The UK is leading high level political engagement for the international community on Somaliland’s overdue parliamentary elections calling on all political actors to ensure they are held well before the end of 2020. Over the last three months, we have continued diplomatic efforts in addition to work through the Conflict Security and Stability Fund to provide ongoing support to mediation efforts, technical expertise for the National Electoral Commission secretariat and the engagement of marginalised groups, including women and minorities, in the electoral process.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2020 14:40:20 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1172204

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	UK-Africa Investment Summit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Africa-UK Investment Summit will be an annual event.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	6102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>This Summit achieved its objectives of laying the foundations for a new stronger relationship between the UK and Africa based on mutually beneficial trade and investment, which will deliver for all our people. Following our departure from the European Union, the Government will build further on these foundations, in a range of ways, to realise the UK’s ambition to be the investment partner of choice for Africa, to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and to ensure the mutual prosperity of all our nations.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed a copy of the UK Government’s statement on the Summit in the Library of the House. The statement is also available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-government-statement-on-the-uk-africa-investment-summit" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/01/2020 13:31:06 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah