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156556

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date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Health Services: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Northover on 21 October (HL2052), what proportion of spending on HIV, tuberculosis and malaria can be qualified as supporting research and development for new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The estimated proportion of spend in the 2012/13 financial year, which is the most recent year for which we have figures, is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><strong>Research as a % of bilateral plus Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria spend</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Malaria</strong></td><td>8%</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TB</strong></td><td>4%</td></tr><tr><td><strong>HIV</strong></td><td>3%</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 02/12/2014 15:10:13 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

156557

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which United Kingdom non-governmental organisations the Department for International Development has supported in response to the ebola epidemic; and how much money has been given to each of those organisations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK is leading the international response to Ebola in Sierra Leone, and we are working closely with a wide range of UK and International NGOs to contain and combat the outbreak. Given the shifting nature of the epidemic and the evolving international response, payments to NGOs are under constant review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To date, our support to UK NGOs includes disbursement of £13.5million to the British Red Cross; £5million to Save the Children; £3.6 million to World Vision; £2.1million to UK Med, £50,000 to Riders for Health and £52,000 to Map Action.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will make further disbursements to UK NGOs as needed throughout the Ebola crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 27/11/2014 17:56:33 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

156558

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Tuberculosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they are doing to support the development of a new tuberculosis treatment regimen.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK Government is a strong supporter of research to develop new tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens and has funded the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) since 2005. The TB Alliance has three TB treatment regimens in late stage clinical development and will soon launch one of those into a registration study. In addition the TB Alliance is adapting existing regimens so that they can be used for children with TB.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 27/11/2014 14:44:30 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

100069

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Eurasian Economic Union
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 likely political and economic impact of the Eurasian Economic Union being launched on 1 January 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK and EU continue to engage directly with the individual countries that form the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Not all members have devolved the relevant trade competences to the Union and not all are World Trade Organisation members. This creates incompatibilities in EU-EEU negotiations that can only be addressed with the individual EEU member states.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 04/11/2014 17:17:53 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

92815

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Health Services: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the World Health Organization Recommended Activities for tuberculosis and HIV integration are currently employed within (1) bilateral tuberculosis programmes, and (2) bilateral HIV programmes.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>DFID actively seeks to incorporate World Health Organisation guidance into its programmes but activities that fit with the WHO recommended activities are not specifically identified in our financial and other management information systems, and therefore we are unable to report on the information requested without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Promoting integrated responses to tackling TB-HIV co-infection has been highlighted in the review of the UK’s 2011 HIV position paper, “<strong>Towards Zero Infections-Two Years On</strong>”, as a key area of current and on-going effort. This will contribute to the global results to help halve TB-related deaths among people living with HIV by 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 21/10/2014 15:30:01 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie

92816

registered interest
date	13/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Health Services: Overseas Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Department for International Development spent on the relief of (1) HIV, (2) tuberculosis, and (3) malaria, in 2013, including commitments to the Global Fund.
tabling member printed	Baroness Suttie
uin	HL2052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Details of the total expenditure on health are published online in Statistics on International Development (SID) at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Development’s (DFID) support to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria control is provided through: disease-specific bilateral projects and programmes; bilateral support to health systems and service delivery; UK Government contributions to multilateral and global initiatives that work on disease prevention and treatment; and by supporting research.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2012/13 the UK contributed £127.9 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Figures for direct bilateral spend in 2012/13 on HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis are reproduced below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2012/13</p><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HIV</p></td><td><p>90.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malaria</p></td><td><p>111.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TB</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 21/10/2014 15:33:13 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4298 label Biography information for Baroness Suttie