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1109308

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Abortion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any Department for International Development programmes will be affected by the government of the United States' decision to expand the global gag rule on the delivery of sexual and reproductive health and rights services; and if so, which.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL15025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK government will continue to lead the world in our long-term support for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and to help women and girls get the information and services they need to give them control over their own lives and bodies.</p><p> </p><p>Following the reintroduction and expansion of the Mexico City Policy in January 2017, we have kept in close contact with partners to ensure the policy does not compromise UK-supported comprehensive SRHR programming. The full implications of the now further expanded Mexico City Policy are not yet clear, but we are closely monitoring developments. DFID will consider the implications with our offices and partners and with civil society and with donors.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL15024 question first answered 16/04/2019 14:00:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1109307

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Development Aid: Abortion
	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 impact of the decision by the government of the United States to expand the global gag rule on the delivery of sexual and reproductive health and rights services supported by UK Official Development Assistance.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL15024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK government will continue to lead the world in our long-term support for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and to help women and girls get the information and services they need to give them control over their own lives and bodies.</p><p> </p><p>Following the reintroduction and expansion of the Mexico City Policy in January 2017, we have kept in close contact with partners to ensure the policy does not compromise UK-supported comprehensive SRHR programming. The full implications of the now further expanded Mexico City Policy are not yet clear, but we are closely monitoring developments. DFID will consider the implications with our offices and partners and with civil society and with donors.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates grouped question UIN HL15025 question first answered 16/04/2019 14:00:43 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1109303

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gaza: Children
	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 study by the Norwegian Refugee Council on the mental health of children living in Gaza, published on 25 March.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL15020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>DFID has not made its own assessment of the study by the Norwegian Refugee Council on the mental health of children in Gaza, published on 25 March 2019, but have previously reviewed the UNICEF Overseas Development Institute December 2016 report and use it to feed into our analysis on the situation of people with disabilities. DFID is planning to commission a comprehensive assessment of needs and existing effective interventions which address the long-term needs of people living with disabilities in Gaza.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 16/04/2019 13:59:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1091637

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sudan: 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 Lord Bates on 14 March (HL14228), what grants DFID Sudan has disbursed to the government of Sudan's institutions in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>DFID Sudan provides no direct financial assistance to any Government of Sudan institutions. DFID Sudan provides some funding that is disbursed by implementing partners to Government of Sudan institutions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 01/04/2019 15:46:58 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1087582

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gaza: Israel
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment has been made of (1) the contamination by heavy metal weapon remnants in Gaza, following the attacks by Israel in 2012 and 2014, and (2) the impact of that contamination on prevalence of pre term infants, low birth weight and birth defects in Gaza since 2011.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has not made its own assessment of this specific issue. We continue to engage closely with the World Health Organisation, UN OCHA, and other health and humanitarian based NGOs working in Gaza to ensure we are able to comprehensively monitor health and humanitarian needs there.</p><p> </p><p>To help ensure hospitals in Gaza can continue to provide essential services on a range of health issues, we provided £1.5 million for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) OPTs Appeal in 2018. This funding has helped treat patients in 11 hospitals which are under extreme pressure in Gaza by restocking vital medical supplies including medicines, surgical equipment, and bandages and helping provide physical rehabilitation services for around 4,000 people.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/03/2019 16:07:16 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1081695

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sudan: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what grants they gave to the government of Sudan's National Council on Child Welfare in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>DFID Sudan provides no direct financial assistance to the Government of Sudan. DFID Sudan provides some funding that is disbursed by implementing partners to Government of Sudan institutions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/03/2019 17:49:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1081692

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gaza: Morphine
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that supplies of morphine in Shifa Hospital, Gaza, do not run out.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>DFID is closely monitoring the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which remains under significant strain. We are aware of reports that hospitals are facing shortages in medical supplies and medicines. To help ensure hospitals in Gaza can continue to provide essential services we provided £1.5 million for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) OPTs Appeal in 2018. This funding has helped treat patients in 11 hospitals which are under extreme pressure in Gaza by restocking vital medical supplies including medicines, surgical equipment, and bandages and helping provide physical rehabilitation services for around 4,000 people.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/03/2019 17:49:39 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1079490

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sudan: Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial assistance they gave to the government of Sudan to combat Female Genital Mutilation in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>DFID Sudan provides no direct financial assistance to the Government of Sudan. DFID Sudan provides some funding that is disbursed by implementing partners to the Government of Sudan.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 14/03/2019 17:51:42 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1078302

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the provision of Official Development Assistance is tied to the recipient of such assistance using goods and services from the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL14074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a clear policy to keep all its aid untied. This is set out in the 2015 Aid Strategy. Untied aid promotes value for money through ensuring open competition for aid-funded programmes. British businesses are already extremely competitive and do not need the implicit subsidy of tied aid to win work.</p><p>Recent statistical information on UK ODA can be found in DFID's Annual Report for 2018 available on DFID’s website.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/03/2019 17:31:28 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1056496

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Gaza: Sewage
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in reconstructing sewage works in Gaza and ensuring that those works function reliably.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
	uin	HL13544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK has not supported reconstruction of sewage works in Gaza but has funded improved water and sanitation through UNICEF; and plans to improve water and wastewater services by funding the World Bank.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, DFID committed to supporting the World Bank’s Water Security Development Programme (WSDP). The programme is currently in the design phase but will focus on supporting infrastructure for the water network related to the Gaza Central Desalination Programme and provide technical support to the Palestinian Water Authority. The technical assistance will include support to improve water and wastewater services.</p><p> </p><p>To address Gaza’s water and sanitation crisis in 2018, DFID provided £2 million to UNICEF to help reduce the spread of disease by disinfecting water in 280 water wells, 38 desalination plants, and 40 water reservoirs. This support has improved access to water and sanitation services for 2 million people in Gaza.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/02/2019 15:18:29 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge