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887054

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Nigeria: Boko Haram
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking help ensure the safety of schools in northern Nigeria from attack from Boko Haram.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	136622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>All children have the right to learn in safe environments. The Government remains committed to supporting Nigeria to respond to humanitarian needs, and address the root causes of the conflict in the north-east of the country. Education is a crucial part of working towards a brighter future for the region.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and Nigeria have both endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, which deters the military from use of schools and prevents schools becoming targets in conflict-affected areas. DFID is supporting the Government of Nigeria to implement the Declaration, including in the north-east.</p><p> </p><p>DFID supported the Safe School Initiative. Technical assistance provided has focused on supporting the Safe School Initiative secretariat through development of tools for reporting and monitoring of activities including training to school based management committees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 26/04/2018 14:10:01 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

858607

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	South Sudan: Famine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to (a) tackle and (b) prevent famine in South Sudan.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	131862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Although famine has not been formally declared in 2018, South Sudan continues to experience record levels of food insecurity as a result of the ongoing conflict. 5.3 million people, nearly half the population, are estimated to be severely food insecure - a 40% increase from the same time last year. 1 million people are on the edge of famine.</p><p>To tackle food insecurity and prevent famine, UK Aid is working with partners like the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Humanitarian Air Service to get food and nutrition supplies to key locations across the country – by truck, helicopter or barge. With support from the UK and other international donors, so far this year WFP has reached almost 1.6 million people with a total of 18,000 metric tonnes of food. They are also continuing to preposition stocks at key locations across the country in anticipation of future need.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 14/03/2018 16:33:12 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

862133

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	what proportion of her Department's staff are (a) female and (b) male.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	132552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>As of 28 February 2018, DFID have 55.4% female and 44.6% male employees.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 16:33:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

862132

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	EU Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it is the Government’s policy to continue to contribute to EU International Development efforts after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	132551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister set out in her speech in Munich, the UK is seeking a broad and deep partnership with the EU and provided detail on how the UK future security partnership with the EU will work. It is in our mutual interests to be strong development partners after the UK has left the EU, and that we work coherently in response to specific crises overseas and helping the world’s most vulnerable.</p><p>Where we hold shared commitments and objectives it is in our mutual interests to find ways to continue working together, on a case-by-case basis, to ensure that we can collectively draw on expertise, to achieve our global development objectives and to deliver the best value for money.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/03/2018 16:33:36 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

858610

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Non-governmental Organisations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department plans to change its approach to due diligence when partnering with non-governmental organisations in developing countries as a result of the allegations of sexual misconduct by members of those organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	131865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>At the Safeguarding Summit on 5 March, I announced that DFID will put in place new, enhanced and specific safeguarding standards within our due diligence process for all non-governmental organisations. This will include an assessment of codes of conduct, how organisations identify and respond to incidents, and how risk management places safeguarding and beneficiaries at its core. New funds to organisations will not be approved unless they pass the new standards.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 15/03/2018 12:37:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

983243

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sudan: Politics and Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken to support civil society in Sudan.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	176537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>DFID Sudan primarily engages and supports civil society through the Local Partnership and Dialogue Programme (LPDP) with a total support of £12 million which aims to build the capacity of non-state actors to demand and deliver more inclusive, democratic &amp; accountable governance. Over the past 3 years, the programme has delivered the following:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Institutional capacity building </strong>- tailored to specific needs of 25 Civil Society Organisations (CSO).</p></li><li><p><strong>Funding CSOs</strong> to pursue governance issues such as basic service delivery (e.g. health and education), environment and rule of law.</p></li><li><p><strong>Empowerment of Youth Leaders</strong> - through training and mentoring for their empowerment, training more than 60 activists from civil society, political parties and youth-led organisations/initiatives, by raising their awareness of democratic values and practices.</p></li><li><p><strong>Facilitation of dialogue </strong>among and within 20 political groups with focus on those with social and political divides to enhance political dialogue processes such as the National Dialogue and the Peace negotiation process in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan States.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/10/2018 16:13:02 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

972334

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Refugees: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the study by the International Finance Corporation and the UN Refugee Agency on Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, published on 4 May 2018, what assessment her Department has made of the economic gains to host communities if refugees are able to work.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	174135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>DFID assesses that opportunities for refugees to work in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and other refugee camps, can provide considerable benefit for host communities. This includes through increased refugee spending on local goods and services and in some cases, the hiring of host community members to work in refugee owned businesses and homes. The findings of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) study on Kakuma, are consistent with DFID’s recent support to refugees in Kenya, which has helped build the self-reliance of refugees, including through livelihoods opportunities and greater integration with host communities. DFID Kenya has participated in a number of discussions with IFC/UNHCR, the private sector and other development partners on the findings of the study and its implications for donor programming in Kenya.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 09/10/2018 11:21:48 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

971609

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Think Tanks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the number of think tanks located in each African country it operates in.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	173584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>DFID does not hold estimates for the total number of think tanks located in each African country it operates in. DFID’s funding via the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) supports 18 think tanks in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/09/2018 16:23:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

904764

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2018
	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: Private Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Government overseas development assistance expenditure has been spent (a) directly and (b) indirectly on low-fee for profit private schools since 2015; and which countries are the top ten recipients of such assistance.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	144381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>DFID does not track its ODA spend along these lines and this information is not held centrally within the department. As a result, this question could only be answered at disproportionate cost.</p><p>DFID can confirm, however, that it does not currently directly fund any Bridge International Academy schools.</p><p>The full list of educational programmes DFID engages in can be found at <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/05/2018 17:08:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

887074

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Rohingya: Sexual Offences
	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 allocated to support programmes on (a) sexual and reproductive health and (b) assistance for survivors of gender based violence for Rohingya women and girls.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	136642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>DFID has provided almost £2m for services relating to both sexual reproductive health and rights, and assistance for survivors of gender-based violence for Rohingya people. DFID has also deployed specialist expertise to support its own response and that of the wider international community in this area. This expertise includes the coordinator for the Gender-Based Violence sector in Cox’s Bazar and a Sexual Reproductive Health Coordinator, both working with UNFPA.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/04/2018 15:46:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill