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1035248

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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: Development Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of Overseas Development Assistance to the Palestinian Authority has been spent on the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	205408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>No UK aid is used for prisoner payments or the fund to which you refer. UK aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is used exclusively to pay the salaries of vetted health and education public servants, including teachers, doctors and nurses, in the West Bank. Our money goes into a special, dedicated bank account before being paid to individuals who have been vetted in advance through the European Union Palestinian-European Socio-Economic Management Assistance Mechanism (PEGASE), ensuring UK funding is not diverted. The UK has never allocated aid to the Martyrs Fund to which you refer and we have always had financial safeguards in place to ensure UK aid reaches the intended beneficiaries. UK aid to the PA in 2018 helped immunise up to 3,700 children, provide around 185,000 medical consultations, and educate around 24,000 young Palestinians.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2019 14:13:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

831175

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2018
	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 Citizen Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons her Department will no longer run the International Citizen Service programme from April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	125183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK government remains completely committed to ICS. We are currently designing a new phase of ICS, a process which will involve a range of stakeholders, including young people, to ensure we are providing the best offer for young volunteers and to deliver value for the British taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/02/2018 14:54:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861039

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gaza: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department plans to provide support for health services in Gaza as a result of the recent findings of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	132188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is providing £1.9 million to support the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Gaza urgent funding appeal. This is being delivered through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support critical water and sanitation needs identified by the appeal. UK funding is helping to provide clean water and rehabilitate sanitation facilities to stop the spread of disease, benefitting up to 1 million Gazans. Additionally the UK is a long-term supporter of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which provides basic services to 1.3 million people in Gaza, including basic health care.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/03/2018 13:01:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

866992

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Syria: Humanitarian Aid
	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 the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on steps to establish medical evacuations and increased humanitarian assistance in Eastern Ghouta.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	133110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>DFID officials discuss regularly the humanitarian situation in Eastern Ghouta with the United Nationals Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), including the issue of medical evacuations, and how to ensure humanitarian assistance reaches those most in need, as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 2401. However, humanitarian access is severely constrained by the Assad regime.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/03/2018 15:15:04 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

922437

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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 Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions her Department has had with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the provision of humanitarian assistance, and in particular food, to Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	152862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>DFID is in regular contact with our UN partners in Yemen who are delivering the humanitarian response. Most recently I spoke to the UN’s Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, on 14 June. We are also in regular contact with the World Food Programme (WFP) which delivers the majority of food aid into the country at Ministerial level with WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley.</p><p> </p><p>The UN estimates that 17.8 million people in Yemen do not have reliable access to food and 8.4 million people face extreme food shortages. Our funding of £170 million to Yemen this financial year 2018/2019 includes support to meet the immediate food needs for 2.5 million Yemenis, and brings the total UK bilateral support to Yemen to over £570 million since 2015.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/06/2018 13:03:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

837974

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	South Africa: Water
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to provide humanitarian assistance to South Africa to help respond to the water shortage in Cape Town.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	127004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>We, and UK experts in London and in Cape Town, are in ongoing discussions with the Western Cape provincial and Cape Town municipal governments about how UK expertise and companies could collaborate with the South African authorities to address the short and long term water challenges. There have been no requests for humanitarian assistance and we have no plans to provide it.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/02/2018 15:54:02 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel