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1188901

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date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Contraceptives
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 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic UNFPA Global Response Plan, what steps her Department is taking to (a) work with the United Nations Population Fund to secure the supply of reproductive health products and (b) ensure that women and girls in developing countries continue to have access to (i) contraception and (ii) safe abortion throughout the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	38452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>Women and girls will be significantly impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic. As UNFPA’s largest donor and a key advocate of the empowerment of women and girls including their sexual and reproductive health and rights, DFID is working closely with UNFPA to ensure continued access to reproductive health products and services.</p><p>Through the UK’s existing support to UNFPA, including the UNFPA Supplies programme (£425 million between 2020-2025) the UK is providing high quality family planning and essential life-saving maternal health medicines to those in need, including commodities required for post-abortion care and medical abortions where it is legal.</p><p>Recognising the needs of women and girls impacted by COVID-19, DFID has also committed £10 million of UK emergency funding to UNFPA through the Global Humanitarian Response Plan. This funding will help maintain the supply of reproductive health commodities, including contraception, to ensure continued access for women and girls. Furthermore, the funding will maintain access for women and girls to life-saving sexual and reproductive health services as well as gender-based violence services for those in need.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:11:14 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1188963

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department is providing support to organisations or projects researching a covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	38521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The UK is at the forefront of efforts to develop coronavirus vaccines. As agreed by the G20, we support a global approach to the rapid development and scaled up manufacture of vaccines with equitable access to all who need them, including in the poorest countries. We are working with international partners, industry and researchers to support an approach to accelerate research and development, scale up global manufacturing capacity and ensure funding to deliver this aim.</p><p>The UK is a strong supporter of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which is supporting the development of vaccines that will be available throughout the world. We have pledged £250 million of UK aid to CEPI, the biggest donation of any country to date. CEPI is supporting the development of 10 COVID-19 vaccine candidates, such as the University of Oxford’s vaccine research.</p><p>UK aid has also supported Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance for 20 years. We are its biggest donor, helping to immunise over 760 million children and saving over 13 million lives worldwide. Gavi will play a key role in making a new COVID-19 vaccine available and affordable.</p><p>UK support, through CEPI, GAVI and others, will help facilitate the end-to-end development and distribution of a successful vaccine.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 29/04/2020 17:01:06 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1188971

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Coronavirus
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 support the Overseas Territories to deal with the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	38529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>A range of government departments, led by DFID and the FCO, are supporting Overseas Territories to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. Support includes essential medical supply, public health advice, security and access support, and financial aid to mitigate the economic impacts in the most vulnerable territories.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 29/04/2020 17:01:56 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1188978

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to UK-based charities and small businesses to help those organisations tackle the covid-19 outbreak in the developing world.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	38535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>DFID will deliver a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries, through programming to support the global health and economic response, funding for further vaccine development, preparation for the recovery phase and leadership within the international community.</p><p>We have agreed that part of this funding will go to NGOs, including UK charities that are using British expertise and experience to deal with COVID-19, the majority of which will be allocated through the Rapid Response Facility. We have also committed funding to the International Committee of the Red Cross and British Red Cross to reach populations in some of the hardest to reach areas, including those affected by conflict. We are reviewing our portfolio to identify existing programmes that can support the response immediately and others that can be adapted or scaled up, such as our support to health systems and humanitarian crises.</p><p>We will continue engaging with UK charities and private sector partners, including Small Medium Enterprises, to address the challenges posed to their organisations and DFID-funded projects by COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:10:03 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1188979

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	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 help to build resilience amongst domestic health services and systems in developing countries during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	38536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>Strong and resilient national health systems are vital to global health security and helping to protect the world from infectious diseases, including COVID-19. The UK has, so far, pledged £744 million of UK aid to help end the COVID-19 pandemic as quickly as possible. This includes a package of £200 million to support UK charities and international organisations to help reduce mass infections in developing countries, which often lack the healthcare systems to track and prevent the virus from spreading.</p><p>Through our multilateral partnerships with organisations like the WHO and the World Bank, and our regional and national programmes, the UK supports developing countries to make their domestic health systems stronger and more resilient. In turn this enables them to prevent, detect and respond to health threats, such as COVID-19. For example, DFIDs’ Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Programme includes capacity building for health security and preparedness for health emergencies, including disease surveillance.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:12:11 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1189004

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding the Government plans to provide to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in each year from 2021 to 2025.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	38559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s work is critical to the delivery of the UK’s objective to end preventable deaths, having helped save 13 million lives since its inception in 2000, and has a crucial role to play in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UK remains deeply committed to supporting this work, including through the provision of significant funding to Gavi and hosting the Gavi replenishment at the Global Vaccine Summit 2020 on 4 June. The level of funding for Gavi’s next strategic period is currently being considered.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2020 16:18:06 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1188398

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to provide aid to developing countries that are struggling to tackle outbreaks of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	37835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The UK is playing a leading role in the global response to COVID-19, working with our international partners to slow its spread. We are using UK aid to its full effect to counter the health, humanitarian, and economic risks of this pandemic in the developing world. The UK has, so far, pledged £744 million of UK aid to help end this pandemic as quickly as possible. The UK continues to work with international partners, including the United Nations and its agencies, to ensure aid reaches those most in need.</p><p>The UK strongly supports the UN’s Global Humanitarian Response Plan to tackle COVID-19. Our latest UK aid funding of £200 million, announced on 12 April, will enable humanitarian organisations to help reduce mass infections in developing countries that often lack the healthcare systems to track and halt the virus. This funding includes £130 million to UN agencies in response to their COVID-19 humanitarian appeals. We have also allocated £50 million to the Red Cross and £50 million to match funding from Unilever, for a joint project targeting up to a billion people with awareness and behavioural change campaigns to promote handwashing and providing 20 million hygiene items to help the most vulnerable communities protect themselves.</p><p>The UK is also providing up to £150 million of UK aid funding, which will go the International Monetary Fund’s Catastrophe Containment Relief Trust to help developing countries meet their debt repayments so that they can focus their available resources on tackling COVID-19. The UK has also worked closely with other G20 creditors and the Paris Club to provide a temporary suspension of debt repayments from the poorest and most vulnerable countries that request relief, further boosting countries’ capacity to respond to the crisis.</p><p>By preventing the virus from spreading in the poorest countries we will save lives and reduce the risk of future waves of infection spreading around the world, including to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:29:36 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

1188601

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	World Health Organization: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on how the World Health Organisation plans to spend funding granted to that organisation by the UK Government in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	37585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government provides funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) through a number of specific health programmes and through core funding. In the next 12 months, our core funding will support WHO deliver its 13<sup>th</sup> General Programme of Work that seeks to protect 1 billion people from health emergencies, provide 1 billion more people with access to universal health coverage, and enable 1 billion more people to live healthier lives. Our health programme support addresses specific UK priorities within the 13<sup>th</sup> General Programme of Work, for example, health systems strengthening, global health security and work to end the preventable deaths of mothers, children and new-borns.</p><p>The UK is the second largest Member State funder to WHO overall; this amount varies year upon year based on need – this was around 10% of WHO’s income over the last two years. The UK’s contribution to WHO for COVID-19 response is world-leading and will likely significantly increase UK’s share.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:05:59 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1188661

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department plans to provide to UK-based international charities during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Nickie Aiken
uin	37957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>DFID is engaging with civil society partners to understand the delivery and operational challenges they face as a result of COVID-19. We will work collaboratively with civil society partners in receipt of DFID funding to find pragmatic solutions to support both our partners and continuation of our programmes where appropriate.</p><p>The COVID-19 response will continue to develop rapidly, and we are assessing and monitoring the overall financial health of supply partners to identify organisations we believe are at risk due to COVID-19.</p><p>We will deliver a comprehensive COVID-19 response through programming to support the global health and economic response, funding for further vaccine development, preparing for the recovery phase and leadership within the international community.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:06:57 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4741 label Biography information for Nickie Aiken

1188662

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if her Department will take steps to reduce bureaucratic requirements for UK-based international charities during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Nickie Aiken
uin	37958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>DFID’s approach, in line with the government’s overall approach, is to work collaboratively with partners, including UK based international charities, to find flexible solutions that maintain delivery of essential programmes as far as possible. This applies across grants and contracts, and we are working hard to develop more comprehensive guidance for our partners in these areas.</p><p>DFID Smart Rules and programme delivery processes are kept under constant review to ensure that they are appropriate, both for partners and in meeting our responsibilities for spending public money.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/04/2020 16:07:51 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4741 label Biography information for Nickie Aiken