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347691

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent reports she has received on the work of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition; what steps she is taking to ensure that the Alliance's work does not contribute to the takeover of land belonging to small farmers by multinational corporations; and what steps she is taking to ensure that the Alliance does not prioritise growing food for export over producing food to feed local people.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The New Alliance Leadership Council met on 2<sup>nd</sup> of June 2015. The UK attended this meeting and a progress report was discussed, agreed and will be published shortly on the New Alliance website.</p><p> </p><p>All parties investing under the New Alliance commit to support implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of land, fisheries and forests, which are international guidelines to make land investments transparent and accountable.</p><p> </p><p>Most of the investment commitments made under the New Alliance involve agribusiness investments downstream from the farm and are therefore not competing with small-scale farmers. Such investments are critical to create jobs and new markets for small-scale farmers, and to help African countries diversify out of primary commodity production. This will require investment and growth along the agricultural value chain rather than just investment in small-scale farmers’ food production.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 08/06/2015 16:12:26 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

416283

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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: Nutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will respond to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact's Report on the Department for International Development's Contribution to Improving Nutrition published July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	8670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID provided a management response to the report on 30 July 2014 which can be seen at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-management-response-to-independent-commission-for-aid-impact-recommendation-on-dfids-contribution-to-improving-nutrition-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-management-response-to-independent-commission-for-aid-impact-recommendation-on-dfids-contribution-to-improving-nutrition-june-2014</a>.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 11/09/2015 12:07:25 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

420229

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	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 her Department plans to publish its health system strengthening framework.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 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 15/10/2015 09:38:27 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

418963

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Malawi: Sanitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on water, sanitation and hygiene services in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in Malawi in each of the last five years; and how much such spending her Department has planned in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	10310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID has committed £21.6m in funding for water, sanitation and hygiene in Malawi since 2010. By mid-2016, UK aid will have ensured that 750,000 people in Malawi will benefit from safer water and improved sanitation.</p><p> </p><p>Full details of DFID funding to Malawi are published on the Development Tracker website: <a href="http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is currently in the process of finalising its programme portfolio for 2016-2020 and will decide any continued investments in WASH accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 22/09/2015 11:17:10 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

418964

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Liberia: Sanitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on water, sanitation and hygiene services in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in Liberia in each of the last five years; and how much such spending her Department has planned in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	10311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>DFID has spent £6.8m on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (WASH) programmes in Liberia since 2009.</p><p> </p><p>This includes work on both physical infrastructure and hygiene promotion in rural and urban areas; however the data is not broken down in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to support for water, sanitation and hygiene services, DFID has supported the World Bank Liberia Reconstruction Trust Fund (LRTF) since its inception, which has resulted in improved solid waste management and collection in Monrovia.</p><p> </p><p>Full details of DFID funding to Liberia are published on the Development Tracker website: http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is currently in the process of finalising its programme portfolio for 2016-2020 and will decide any continued investments in WASH accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 22/09/2015 11:21:40 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

418969

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Mozambique: Sanitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on water, sanitation and hygiene services in (a) rural and (b) urban areas in Mozambique in each of the last five years; and how much such spending her Department has planned in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	10309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>UK has spent £23.9 million in rural water and sanitation in Mozambique over the past five years. Our programme includes direct support and technical assistance to government to plan, build and maintain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. We have also worked with UNICEF, a global leader in the provision of WASH services. Over the past four years the UK has helped an additional 2.3 million people gain access to clean water and a further 2.1 million to sanitation.</p><p> </p><p>Full details of DFID funding to Mozambique are published on the Development Tracker website: <a href="http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is currently in the process of finalising its programme portfolio for 2016-2020 and will decide any continued investments in WASH accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 22/09/2015 11:14:00 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

429415

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what conditions are placed on her Department's funding for the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition; and whether such funding is (a) regularly reviewed and (b) preceded by local consultation in those countries that receive such funding.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>In 2012, the UK made a £600m pledge to the New Alliance, consisting of projects in 6 founding member countries, which aim at improving incomes from agricultural production, and the food security and nutrition of smallholder farmers and the extreme poor. The objective of the pledge was to be more transparent about aid to agriculture and food security, in alignment with principles of aid effectiveness and the overall goal of the New Alliance. The £600m also included funding to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP, managed by the World Bank) and other international agriculture research and policy initiatives.</p><br /><p>Like every programme funded by DFID, projects pledged under the New Alliance are subject to annual reviews that are posted on the DFID Development Tracker website. At national level, governments lead an annual review of the progress of commitments, in consultation with development and private sector actors, which findings are made public on the New Alliance website.</p><br /> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 26/11/2015 17:03:46 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

429418

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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: Food
	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 effect of agroecology on food production in the developing world; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>DFID supports a number of research programmes that assess the use of agroecology and sustainable intensification of agriculture, such as work with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa. Research shows that yields improvements are context-based and can vary significantly, according to local agroclimatic potential, effective productivity levels and farmers’ investment capacity.</p><br /><p>DFID believes agro ecological approaches have an important role to play in specific contexts, but does not prescribe technical approaches centrally. DFID supports a wide range of programmes with agro-ecological components, from soil and water conservation and land use management to climate resilience, conservation agriculture and agroforestry. These include, for example, The Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP), and Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED). The full range of our programmes can be found on our Development Tracker website.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 26/11/2015 17:01:08 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

383921

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	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
	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 plans to provide for (a) research on and (b) treatment of malaria until 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government’s expenditure on malaria is provided through: malaria-specific bilateral projects and programmes; bilateral support to health systems and service delivery; UK Government contributions to multilateral and global initiatives that work on malaria prevention and treatment; and by supporting malaria related research. The UK’s Framework for Results for malaria in the developing world set out a methodology for monitoring the Government's spending on malaria. The estimated UK spend on malaria prevention, control and treatment between 2008/09 and 2013/14 was:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>Total malaria spend</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>138</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>306</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>313</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>536</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are unable to specify future spending on research or treatment of malaria, as a spending review will take place later this year that will determine the future expenditure allocations across the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 25/06/2015 16:34:53 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

383926

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consultancy firms her Department works with in the delivery of projects for (a) treatment of and (b) research on malaria.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for International Development works with a range of suppliers to deliver malaria prevention, treatment and research projects. Detailed information on international development projects funded by the UK Government is available on the Development Tracker website.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 25/06/2015 16:35:12 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe