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1177406

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Leprosy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if he will appoint a Government champion to bring about the end of leprosy.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	14693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>A key aim of the UK’s global health work is to support countries to build and maintain strong health systems, achieve universal health coverage, and to tackle all causes of ill health - working in close partnership with national governments. In September 2019 the UK’s flagship £220 million neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) programme was launched, which will provide treatment and care for NTDs to 200 million people. We have no current plans to appoint government champions on specific NTDs such as leprosy.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/02/2020 14:54:31 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1186511

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2020
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Abortion: Development Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that funding from the public purse is not allocated to programmes that support sex-selective abortion overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	32130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK strongly opposes sex-selective abortion. We do not fund programmes which contribute directly or indirectly to sex-selective abortion. DFID has in place several measures to ensure the accountability of all UK aid, including our programmes that support access to safe abortion care. These include due diligence of all primary implementing partners, regular spot checks, a robust monitoring and evaluation system which includes beneficiary feedback and annual project reviews.</p><p>Sex-selective abortion is the result of deep-rooted discrimination against women and girls. The UK supports partner governments’ efforts to prevent this discrimination through our programmes to promote gender equality, girls’ and women’s empowerment and rights.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/03/2020 16:40:01 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

523588

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Department for International Development: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure that staff in her Department receive religious literacy training.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	39678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>In implementing DFID’s ‘Faith Partnership Principles Paper’, DFID has produced material for staff on the role played by faiths in the local, national and global cultural contexts, arranged for faith literacy training and facilitated staff to attend the Foreign and Commonwealth Office faith literacy training courses.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Sir Desmond Swayne question first answered 14/06/2016 16:20:42 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

675584

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Marie Stopes International
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was paid from the public purse to Marie Stopes International in 2016; and how much of that total came from the international aid budget for expenditure overseas in 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	60715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>During January to December 2016, Marie Stopes International (MSI) directly received £44.45 million from DFID through several programmes including: Urban Health for poor mothers in Bangladesh, Reducing Maternal Death Kenya, Family Planning Services Malawi, Reproductive Health Services Pakistan and Improving Reproductive and Maternal and New born health Sierra Leone.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/01/2017 17:08:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

687113

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	World Bank
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's financial contribution to the World Bank was in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	63601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>The World Bank received £1,223 million in core contributions from the Department for International Development in the calendar year 2015.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/02/2017 15:49:25 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770043

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	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: Family Planning
	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 Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme, what the difference is between disability life years saved and disability adjusted life years.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>With reference to the Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme, there is no difference. The World Health Organisation’s official terminology is ‘Disability Adjusted Life Years’. This represents a year of a person’s life saved from living under the burden of poor health and disease.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:26:25 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770045

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	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: Family Planning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of Disability Life Years Saved in African countries under her Department's Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme; and what the financial savings accrued were in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme has averted an estimated 8 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The financial savings to national health systems since the programme’s inception is an estimated £296 million.</p><p> </p><p>The annual breakdown of estimated savings is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme Year</p></td><td><p>£, millions saved</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 1</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 3</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 4</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 5</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 6</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>296</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:25:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770054

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	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: Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding from the public purse her Department has provided to organisations or individuals in African countries who support changes to regulatory policy on abortion services at a national level as part of her Department's programme Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancies in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme aims to increase access to family planning services, give women and girls more control over their lives, and reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion. Where national policies on abortion contribute to high levels of maternal death, our programme implementing partners may seek to raise awareness of these issues and support local efforts to achieve reform aimed at saving maternal lives. It is not possible to disaggregate spend on these activities specifically.</p><p>Since 2011, DFID has provided £99.8 million to the overall PMD programme which works across 17 countries.</p><p>The annual breakdown of spend is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>PMDUP/PMD Spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>8,033,548</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>11,520,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>16,653,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>21,219,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>17,700,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-2017</p></td><td><p>16,557,743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2017</p></td><td><p>8,183,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>99,869,853</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:24:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

770064

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	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: Abortion
	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 provided for new abortion service delivery sites in African countries as part of the Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme during 2011 to 2016; and how many new sites were provided in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	107661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme delivers a comprehensive range of reproductive health services. These may include family planning, health education and safe abortion. As the programme takes an integrated approach to family planning, these services are not disaggregated, so funding to support safe abortion cannot be reported on separately.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/10/2017 08:25:15 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

805446

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question HL3576, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen families.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	119117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Strengthening families is a cross-government objective. Through our education, nutrition, health, economic development and social protection programing, DFID aims to tackle the main factors that pull families apart.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/12/2017 15:48:05 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce