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78547

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will support proposals to amend the goal on education to provide free, equitable and inclusive quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all in the Sustainable Development Goals.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Murphy
uin	206179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK supports a stand-alone education goal in the Sustainable Development Goals to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and life-long learning opportunities for all.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The final goal 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><p> </p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 21/07/2014 12:06:03 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
tabling member	595 label Biography information for Mr Jim Murphy

77439

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) her and (ii) Ministers in her Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	205312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>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><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 17/07/2014 14:27:05 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

65920

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to take action to ensure that essential medical and relief supplies reach people in the autonomous Kurdish cantons of north and east Syria.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>In Syria and the region, UK aid is supporting food for up to 535,000 people a month and water for up to 1.5 million people. UK support to WHO will provide vulnerable Syrians with essential access to comprehensive health services. WHO are also supporting trauma systems, delivering essential supplies and augmenting health systems to respond to outbreaks of diseases. Across Syria the UK has already funded over 244,000 medical consultations to critically injured and sick people.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 17/07/2014 14:49:40 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

63714

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Performance Appraisal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by her Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	202060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Rating</p></td><td><p>Staff with a disability</p></td><td><p>Staff without a disability</p></td><td><p>Staff who have not declared if they have a disability or not</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Box one</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Box two</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td><td><p>65%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Box three</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Mr Alan Duncan question first answered 01/07/2014 15:44:33 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

49994

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the proportion of girls under the age of 16 years old in northern states of Nigeria who are in full-time education.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	197896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>52% of primary-aged girls and 36% of secondary-aged girls were attending school in northern states of Nigeria in 2011.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

64597

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Burma
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how Chin and Karenni children are likely to be reached by the Myanmar Education Consortium in Myanmar.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>A local partner of the Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC), Kayan New Generation Youth, is working with Karenni communities in four states: Kayah, Kayin, Naypyidaw and Shan (south). The MEC is not currently supporting partners in Chin State. However, it is supporting a local organisation, Linguistic Society, working in Rakhine, which is developing early childhood care and development material in one of the ethnic languages used in Southern Chin and adjoining Myebone township in Rakhine.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 08/07/2014 16:17:08 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

49819

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
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 displacement of people from the Syrian town of Kessab.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
uin	HL6832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>According to UN sources, approximately 1,500 to 1,600 families have been displaced from the city of Kessab.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

61784

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many parliamentary questions tabled to her Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	200447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>According to departmental records DFID answered all parliamentary questions that required a substantive answer before the 2014 prorogation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Mr Alan Duncan question first answered 19/06/2014 13:15:43 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

61288

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many displaced people they estimate to be in Darfur, Sudan; how many visits Department for International Development staff have paid to Darfur in the last two years; and which organisations they support there.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Sandwich
uin	HL248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>According to the latest update from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on 15 June 2014, the cumulative number of verified Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Darfur who have been displaced since January 2014 and have yet to return to their areas of origin is <strong>264,528</strong>. This figure is in addition to the estimated number of over 2 million people who, at the end of 2013, have been living in longer term displacement. It is not possible to determine retroactively the number of visits that have occurred over the past two years but DFID staff do travel regularly to Darfur. To date in 2014, there have been a total of six separate visits with a total of eight DFID staff participating, including two by the Head of DFID Sudan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID has provided support to a wide range of development and humanitarian organisations working in Darfur both directly and through different joint funds such as the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) and the Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund (DCPSF). Direct funds go to organisations including the following: the World Food Programme, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision Sudan, Oxfam America, Norwegian Church Aid Sudan and United Methodist Committee on Relief. Organisations getting funding through the joint funds include agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations, International Organisations, International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) and National Non-Governmental Organisations (NNGOs).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 19/06/2014 13:59:38 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	2109 label Biography information for The Earl of Sandwich

57725

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of lethal operations in Yemen on (a) the civilian population and (b) security in that country.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	198642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) activity and attacks continue to threaten Yemen's development and security. DFID has made no specific assessment of the effect of such operations in Yemen, but along with other Departments has conducted detailed analyses of conflict and instability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Mr Alan Duncan question first answered 11/06/2014 16:12:09 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest