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The UK supports a post-2015 target on universal health coverage. This language is included in the most recent draft goals and targets list released by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG) on 2 June.<\/p>
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The final targets in the post-2015 development framework will be subject to international negotiations in the United Nations, in which the UK will play an active role.<\/p>
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The UK, through our Troika, have made statements in the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals on the importance of \u201cleaving no one behind\u201d as an overarching principle for the post 2015 framework.<\/p>
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The final goals and targets in the post-2015 development framework will be subject to international negotiations in the United Nations, in which the UK will play an active role.<\/p>
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DFID's development programming is concerned with extreme poverty everywhere, but the Department focuses its financial investments on poor people in countries where extreme poverty is currently a problem, with relatively weak future prospects of the poor, and for which a self-financed exit from poverty is not feasible at this stage.<\/p>
DFID has 28 priority countries, fourteen of which are Commonwealth countries. The UK is committed to its strong relationships with the countries of the Commonwealth and in the financial year 2013-14, approximately one third of the Department's bilateral expenditure went to Commonwealth countries. These figures exclude the UK Government's contribution to multilateral organisations and regional programmes which also benefit Commonwealth countries.<\/p>
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The UK supports a target to hold the increase in global average temperature below a 2°C rise in accordance with international agreements.<\/p>
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The final targets in the post-2015 development framework will however be subject to international negotiations in the United Nations, in which the UK will play an active role.<\/p>
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The UK supports a target to reduce the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day and a target on reducing poverty according to national definitions. This language is included in the most recent draft goals and targets list released by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG) on 2 June.<\/p>
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The final targets in the post-2015 development framework will however be subject to international negotiations in the United Nations, in which the UK will play an active role.<\/p>
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DFID operates a decentralised Learning and Development system and does not hold central records of course attendance or small scale expenditure. DFID publishes all expenditure over £500, which can be found on our website http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-us/How-we-measure-progress/DFID-spend/. Producing any other type of report would incur disproportionate costs.<\/p>
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I refer Hon. Member to the answer provided today by my Rt Hon. Friend the member for Horsham (Mr Maude).<\/p>
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The Bost Airfield and Agri-Business Park project comprised two separate components. On the airfield upgrade component, DFID worked closely with the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, which operates airfields and airports in Afghanistan, to complete the upgrade. All works have now been handed over to the relevant authorities.<\/p>
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Information on the number of DFID away days and the costs incurred is not held centrally and precise information is not readily available.<\/p>
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Away days for Department for International Development (DFID) staff are overwhelmingly undertaken on DFID or Other Government Department premises where there is little or no cost involved.<\/p>
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Under this Government's transparency programme, contracts and future contract pipeline information is published on Contracts Finder which is available at:<\/p>
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