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169571

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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, with reference to page 2 of her Department's strategic framework for economic development for shared prosperity and poverty reduction, published in January 2013, how the £1.8 billion of her Department's budget to be targeted on economic development will be allocated to different activities and countries.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	218144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Regular monitoring to ensure value for money is embedded within all DFID’s economic development programmes; evaluations of programme effectiveness are commissioned where appropriate. Funding for these activities is allocated within each individual programme budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID uses a range of instruments to deliver the Economic Development Strategy; while programme design is based on an assessment of need and context. In addition, we centrally monitor all economic development spending to enhance portfolio coherence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening grouped question UIN 218141 218142 218143 question first answered 17/12/2014 15:28:28 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

169572

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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, how much her Department has allocated to the CDC Impact Fund; and what assessment she has made of the financial performance of that Fund.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	218149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department has allocated up to £75 million to the DFID Impact Fund which is managed by CDC. The DFID Impact Fund will invest in up to 10 impact investment Funds over 13 years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 17/12/2014 15:28:47 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

169573

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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, with reference to page 23 of her Department's strategic framework for economic development for shared prosperity and poverty reduction, published in January 2013, which instruments (a) are being and (b) will be used; and what amounts will be allocated to each such instrument.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	218143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Regular monitoring to ensure value for money is embedded within all DFID’s economic development programmes; evaluations of programme effectiveness are commissioned where appropriate. Funding for these activities is allocated within each individual programme budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID uses a range of instruments to deliver the Economic Development Strategy; while programme design is based on an assessment of need and context. In addition, we centrally monitor all economic development spending to enhance portfolio coherence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening grouped question UIN 218141 218142 218144 question first answered 17/12/2014 15:28:28 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

169574

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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, how much funding her Department has allocated to evaluation of its Economic Development Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	218141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Regular monitoring to ensure value for money is embedded within all DFID’s economic development programmes; evaluations of programme effectiveness are commissioned where appropriate. Funding for these activities is allocated within each individual programme budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID uses a range of instruments to deliver the Economic Development Strategy; while programme design is based on an assessment of need and context. In addition, we centrally monitor all economic development spending to enhance portfolio coherence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening grouped question UIN 218142 218143 218144 question first answered 17/12/2014 15:28:27 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

169575

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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 criteria her Department will use to evaluate the effectiveness of expenditure under its Economic Development Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	218142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Regular monitoring to ensure value for money is embedded within all DFID’s economic development programmes; evaluations of programme effectiveness are commissioned where appropriate. Funding for these activities is allocated within each individual programme budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID uses a range of instruments to deliver the Economic Development Strategy; while programme design is based on an assessment of need and context. In addition, we centrally monitor all economic development spending to enhance portfolio coherence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening grouped question UIN 218141 218143 218144 question first answered 17/12/2014 15:28:27 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

168994

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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, how much her Department's Debt Relief budget is for the (a) current and (b) next financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	217963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to providing debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) and consider non-HIPC debt relief on a case by case basis. Our budget for the current financial year is £90 million and for the next financial year £95 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 15/12/2014 11:02:34 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

168996

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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 funding her Department has provided for (a) disaster relief, (b) schemes which provide clean water and (c) vaccinations and inoculation against preventable diseases in each of the last five years; and how such funding is expressed as a proportion of her Department's total budget.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	217889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for International Development (DFID) reports its total spend and spend by sector in the annual report that is published in June every year. This report is available online from our website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID’s expenditure on disaster relief is reported under humanitarian assistance. DFID reports expenditure on clean water under water supply and sanitation as the majority of our programmes address these together, recognising that both are important for improving public health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 15/12/2014 18:00:59 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

168998

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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 companies received allocations of what value from her Department's 2013-14 evaluation budget.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	217885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>DFID gave £7.6m to companies in 2013-14 to evaluate our programmes. The largest 5 suppliers were:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Supplier Name</p></td><td><p>Total Spend 2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG LLP</p></td><td><p>£2.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OXFORD POLICY MANAGEMENT</p></td><td><p>£1.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IOD PARC</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UPPER QUARTILE</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WYG International</p></td><td><p>£0.4m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This represents a small proportion of DFID’s total spend on evaluation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 15/12/2014 11:01:43 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

168688

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
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, how much of her Department's Official Development Assistance contribution in 2013 was a result of funding being used or allocated from future years' budgets.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Anas Sarwar
uin	217605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for International Development did not utilise any future year budget to deliver its contribution to Officials Development Assistance in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 15/12/2014 11:07:26 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	3981 label Biography information for Anas Sarwar

166948

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many international payments of less than £2 million his Department has made in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2013-14; how many such payments were made to each country receiving such payments; what the value of such payments was in each such year; and what the cost in fees and transactions of each such payment was.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	216662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>This information would only be available at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/12/2014 16:39:21 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh