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419558

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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: Health Services
	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 that health facilities in countries affected by ebola are strengthened to ensure that they can prevent or contain a future outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	10654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The UK has committed £240m over two years in support of the Government of Sierra Leone’s Ebola Recovery Strategy, including major investment in health. Our interventions will aim to increase the capacity of district and national structures to identify and respond swiftly to future outbreaks of Ebola or other communicable diseases. We will build on the surveillance, command and control systems established during the response.</p><p>In Liberia, DFID has committed £6 million to the Health Sector Pool Fund over two years, to support access to safe, quality health services. The UK indirectly supports Guinea’s recovery through its contributions to WHO and other multilateral organisations. Globally, DFID and the Department of Health are seeking greater commitment from countries to implement the International Health Regulations, the internationally-agreed framework for national systems to prevent and respond to public health crises.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 12/10/2015 12:09:48 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

421446

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether it is an objective of the Health System Strengthening Framework to support partner governments to increase domestic funding for health services.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>DFID’s health systems strengthening framework will set out how the UK should support countries to build strong, resilient health systems in future, both through its own resources and through its partner organisations. This will help countries to make sustainable progress towards the global goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. A strong health system recognises the links between different health issues and provides integrated services to address them. Sustained financing is essential to good quality service provision and the framework will include support for greater domestic resource mobilisation and better public financial management. It will prioritise those who would otherwise be left behind, including the poorest, the most marginalised and those who are hardest to reach.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 11952 11953 question first answered 19/10/2015 15:14:33 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

421447

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when she plans to publish the new Health System Strengthening Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>In the government response to the International Development Committee’s report on Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Countries, DFID proposed to develop a framework for future work on health systems. DFID is developing the framework in consultation with the Department of Health and other UK institutions. DFID is due to update the Committee on progress against its recommendations, including the health systems strengthening framework, in November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/10/2015 15:13:21 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

421448

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what groups of people will be prioritised by the new Health System Strengthening Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>DFID’s health systems strengthening framework will set out how the UK should support countries to build strong, resilient health systems in future, both through its own resources and through its partner organisations. This will help countries to make sustainable progress towards the global goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. A strong health system recognises the links between different health issues and provides integrated services to address them. Sustained financing is essential to good quality service provision and the framework will include support for greater domestic resource mobilisation and better public financial management. It will prioritise those who would otherwise be left behind, including the poorest, the most marginalised and those who are hardest to reach.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 11951 11952 question first answered 19/10/2015 15:14:33 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

421449

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how the Health System Strengthening Framework will address the links between different health issues.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>DFID’s health systems strengthening framework will set out how the UK should support countries to build strong, resilient health systems in future, both through its own resources and through its partner organisations. This will help countries to make sustainable progress towards the global goal of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. A strong health system recognises the links between different health issues and provides integrated services to address them. Sustained financing is essential to good quality service provision and the framework will include support for greater domestic resource mobilisation and better public financial management. It will prioritise those who would otherwise be left behind, including the poorest, the most marginalised and those who are hardest to reach.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 11951 11953 question first answered 19/10/2015 15:14:33 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

389887

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	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: Health Services
	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 plans to take to facilitate NHS staff volunteering overseas to assist with the strengthening of health systems in least developed countries.
	tabling member constituency	Finchley and Golders Green
	tabling member printed	Mike Freer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>In 2014 DFID, with the Department of Health and the National Health Service (NHS), produced the Framework for Voluntary Engagement in Global Health to explain to health sector organisations how they can most effectively support volunteers engaged in health work in developing countries. As part of its support for volunteering, DFID is providing £30 million from 2011 to 2017 for the Health Partnerships Scheme which uses the skills of UK health professionals to train, mentor and coach their developing country counterparts in their home countries. DFID also provides support to the non-governmental organisations VSO and UK-Med which facilitate skilled health professionals volunteering overseas.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 22/07/2015 15:01:11 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer

389890

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made in delivering a framework for strengthening health systems overseas; when that work is due to be finalised; and what engagement there has been between her Department and civil society organisations on that matter.
	tabling member constituency	Finchley and Golders Green
	tabling member printed	Mike Freer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>As part of the government response to the 2014 International Development Committee inquiry, DFID is committed to developing a framework for UK support to health systems strengthening in developing countries. DFID is working on the framework, consulting the Department of Health and other UK institutions. DFID is due to update the Committee on progress with a response in November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 22/07/2015 15:07:08 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer

389891

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what cross-departmental work her Department is engaged in to increase the retention of trained medical staff from low income countries in those countries' health systems.
	tabling member constituency	Finchley and Golders Green
	tabling member printed	Mike Freer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>DFID funds the Health Partnership Scheme, which uses the skills of UK health professionals to train, mentor, and coach their developing country counterparts in their home countries. Over 25,000 health workers have received training and education through this scheme. As a complementary measure, the UK has also signed the World Health Organisation Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel and the Department of Health implements it through the UK Code of Practice for international recruitment. The UK Code specifies a list of developing countries that should not be targeted for international recruitment under any circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 21/07/2015 16:38:25 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer

428437

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	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: Health Services
	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 cost effectiveness of (a) cataract surgery, (b) correction of refractive error, (c) interventions against trachoma and (d) other public health interventions.
	tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
	tabling member printed	Mr Nick Hurd
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	16415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>DFID uses evidence on the cost-effectiveness of health interventions to inform DFID investment decisions. This includes the World Health Organisation CHOICE (CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective) project that provides detailed cost-effectiveness estimates of a large number of interventions to reduce risks to health, including many causes of blindness. DFID’s aim is to maximise health gains through targeted, cost-effective health interventions that are delivered through strengthened, more efficient and effective health systems.</p><br /><p>Every DFID project is rigorously appraised before approval. During implementation each project is regularly monitored to examine whether the targeted results are on track, whether the project represents value for money and remains cost effective, and what, if any, corrective action needs to be undertaken. DFID considers alternative approaches and cost-effectiveness, amongst other factors, whenever we make an investment. The best value for money in a given country at a given time will depend on many factors, including the local context and what others are doing.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 16413 question first answered 23/11/2015 16:01:13 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd

428442

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	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: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is providing to countries which have not yet developed a national eye care plan.
	tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
	tabling member printed	Mr Nick Hurd
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	16410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>In 2013, the World Health Assembly approved the <em>Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment 2014-2019 - Towards Universal Eye Health. </em>This is a roadmap for WHO Member States and international partners with the aim of achieving a measurable reduction of 25% of avoidable visual impairments by 2019. One of the three key objectives of the plan is the development and implementation of integrated national eye health policies, plans and programmes to enhance universal eye health. The UK has signed up to the plan and existing UK programmes on avoidable blindness are contributing to achieving its objectives.</p><br /> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 23/11/2015 16:17:17 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd