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431399

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Multilateral Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will prioritise funding to multilateral agencies that focus their aid programmes and investments in Least Developed Countries.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>We prioritise funding to multilateral agencies depending on how well they meet UK and international development objectives. The agencies that we fund are currently being assessed by our Multilateral Aid Review which will report in the spring.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 26/11/2015 16:23:48 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

435918

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Occupied Territories: Water Supply
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if her Department will take steps to improve access to water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	18905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>UK officials regularly discuss the issue of water with Israeli counterparts. We continue to call for the full implementation of the relaxation of access restrictions for Gaza and, with robust monitoring, for the entry of essential items on the dual-use list to allow for rehabilitation of the water network. We also continue to press both parties to reconvene the Joint Water Committee to facilitate further approval of key projects that will improve Palestinian access to water.</p><p>Through the UN FAO, DFID has invested up to £1.24m to help vulnerable rural farmers in Area C support their families through increased incomes from agricultural production. Improved irrigation efficiency has been achieved by rehabilitation of existing water cisterns and approximately 30km of water conveyance systems.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 14/12/2015 17:51:40 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431404

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	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: Sustainable Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department is contributing to the co-ordination of work across Government to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK welcomes, and is committed to championing, the Sustainable Development Goals. Through our commitment to global development, and by honouring our 0.7% aid commitments, we will play a key role in helping countries to achieve these goals – especially on eradicating extreme poverty, hunger and disease. This will be a cross-government effort, with DFID and other Departments contributing to the successful implementation of the Goals, both internationally and here in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 27/11/2015 12:36:02 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431402

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	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: Equality
	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 to ensure its programme of work contributes to Goal 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals on reduced inequalities.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK welcomes, and is committed to championing, the Global Goals. Through our commitment to global development, and by honouring our 0.7% aid commitments, we will play a key role in helping countries to achieve these goals – especially on eradicating extreme poverty, hunger and disease. The UK has played a key role in creating a set of goals that are universal and inclusive, and underpinned by a commitment to leave no one behind.</p><br /><p>Given the focus of DFID’s work and interventions on those living in extreme poverty, DFID programmes contribute to reducing within country inequality. The new UK Aid strategy commits the government to being a world leader in implementing the Leave No One Behind Promise agreed by the Prime Minister and other world leaders in September 2015. To deliver the new strategy, the government will focus on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, the most excluded, those caught in crises, and those most at risk of violence and discrimination.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 26/11/2015 16:29:30 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

451350

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
	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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, 12 January 2016, Official Report, column 248WH, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the Global Fund is addressing concentrated epidemics among key populations in middle income countries.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	26215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK is a key supporter of the Global Fund and pledged up to £1 billion between 2014 and 2016, subject to a 10% donor share cap. Approximately 50% of Global Fund resources are directed to Middle Income Countries (MICs) and the UK has asked the Global Fund to focus more heavily on marginalised groups in MICs where they do invest.</p><p>The UK is working with the Global Fund and other partners to encourage MICs to develop their own self-financed programmes to combat concentrated epidemics, ensuring that investments are effectively reaching key populations and holding national governments to account so that vulnerable groups are not left behind.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/02/2016 17:13:57 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431765

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department plans to ensure that data is collected on stateless children so that such children can be taken into account in measuring progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK has played a key role in creating a set of Global Goals that are universal and inclusive; underpinned by a commitment to leave no one behind. Goal 17 target 18 concerns the need for high-quality, timely and reliable disaggregated data. It will be essential to have this data to ensure we leave no one behind, including data on stateless children. DFID is currently undertaking a bilateral aid review to address priorities for this parliament and this will address how we will support better data to ensure the Prime Ministers Leave No One Behind promise is delivered.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 30/11/2015 15:40:04 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431400

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with Foreign Office Ministers on the implementation by UK Overseas Territories of public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to lead the way on beneficial ownership disclosure and to encourage others to do the same. We are having discussions at both Ministerial and official level with the Overseas Territories to emphasise the importance of this agenda. Any system should meet the following criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.</p><br /> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 17124 17126 question first answered 26/11/2015 16:04:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431401

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with HM Treasury Ministers on the implementation by UK Overseas Territories of public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to lead the way on beneficial ownership disclosure and to encourage others to do the same. We are having discussions at both Ministerial and official level with the Overseas Territories to emphasise the importance of this agenda. Any system should meet the following criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.</p><br /> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 17123 17126 question first answered 26/11/2015 16:04:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

431403

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits to developing countries of the implementation of public registers of beneficial ownership by UK Overseas Territories with financial centres.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	17126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK continues to lead the way on beneficial ownership disclosure and to encourage others to do the same. We are having discussions at both Ministerial and official level with the Overseas Territories to emphasise the importance of this agenda. Any system should meet the following criteria: UK and domestic law enforcement and tax authorities must be able to access company beneficial ownership information without restriction, subject to relevant safeguards; these competent authorities should be able to quickly identify all companies that a particular beneficial owner has a stake in, without needing to submit multiple and repeated requests; and companies or their beneficial owners must not be alerted to the fact that an investigation is under way.</p><br /> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 17123 17124 question first answered 26/11/2015 16:04:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

433542

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Malaria: Overseas Aid
	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 continue to spend £500 million per year on tackling malaria.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	18278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to remain a world leader in tackling global diseases like malaria.</p><br /><p>In the recent Spending Review we announced the Ross Fund, which will provide £1 billion to support research and implementation to tackle malaria and other infectious diseases. This will be one part of DFID’s balanced portfolio of investments in malaria control, delivered through bilateral and multilateral channels, support to health systems and service delivery and support to research.</p><br /><p>The UK has pledged a contribution to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria of up to £1 billion between 2014 and 2016, subject to a 10% donor share cap. This will dramatically improve the lives of millions of people, saving approximately 580,000 lives by preventing 8.4m new malaria, HIV and TB infections. Our future contributions to the Global Fund are being considered as part of the Spending Review.</p><br /><p>We will lay out further investment plans in the future.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 08/12/2015 17:58:33 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane