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517269

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
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 assist humanitarian relief in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	904855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Yemen is now one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. The UK is the fourth largest donor having more than doubled our commitment to £85m in 2015-16. We have so far helped more than 1.3m Yemenis, providing food, medical supplies, water and emergency shelter to those most in need.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 04/05/2016 15:17:17 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

515408

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Kurds: Overseas Aid
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 has taken to assist the Kurdistan region.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	35373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has committed £79.5 million of humanitarian assistance to Iraq since summer 2014. This includes cash assistance, access to clean water, food, medicines and other life-saving assistance for the most vulnerable. Our partners distribute our aid on the basis of need across Iraq, including to internally displaced persons in northern Iraq.</p><p>Given the importance of a coordinated response, we are providing funding to UNDP to support the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Centre (JCC), as well as its equivalent for the Government of Iraq, the Joint Crisis and Monitoring Centre (JCMC). In close collaboration with the JCMC, UN, donors and NGOs, the JCC is leading humanitarian efforts for the KRG.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 35374 question first answered 03/05/2016 12:34:51 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

515409

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Iraq: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to assist internally displaced persons in northern Iraq with humanitarian aid.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	35374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has committed £79.5 million of humanitarian assistance to Iraq since summer 2014. This includes cash assistance, access to clean water, food, medicines and other life-saving assistance for the most vulnerable. Our partners distribute our aid on the basis of need across Iraq, including to internally displaced persons in northern Iraq.</p><p>Given the importance of a coordinated response, we are providing funding to UNDP to support the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Centre (JCC), as well as its equivalent for the Government of Iraq, the Joint Crisis and Monitoring Centre (JCMC). In close collaboration with the JCMC, UN, donors and NGOs, the JCC is leading humanitarian efforts for the KRG.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne grouped question UIN 35373 question first answered 03/05/2016 12:34:51 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

515410

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department's Graduate Development Scheme will take place in 2016; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	35274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>DFID will be running a Graduate Development Scheme for 2016. Recruitment is due to launch in May 2016.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 28/04/2016 13:42:20 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

515411

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34222, on the humanitarian situation in Madaya, what estimate she has made of the number of civilian deaths due to blocked medical evacuations.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	35216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK condemns the blockage of medical evacuations from hard to reach and besieged areas inside Syria, which has led to unnecessary death and suffering. In March 2016, for example, three children and a young man in Madaya and al-Wa’er died after having their evacuations rejected by the parties restricting access to these towns. Access to healthcare and medical treatment is a fundamental human right protected under international law.</p><p>Some progress is being made. For example, we are pleased by UN reports that nearly 500 people were evacuated for medical reasons from besieged areas on 20 April.</p><p>However, more needs to be done to provide for all those in need in Syria. The UK is pressing for an end to the removal of medical equipment from convoys by the regime, the evacuation of critical medical cases and regular access to healthcare for besieged populations. We will continue to use our position in the UN Security Council and the International Syria Support Group to draw attention to the atrocities being carried out in Syria and press for urgent action, while maintaining the pressure for a political settlement to bring the suffering of the Syrian people to an end.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/05/2016 12:34:28 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

515412

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34222, on the humanitarian situation in Madaya, what discussions she has had with her Russian counterpart about humanitarian access across Syria.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	35215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK plays a key role in opening up humanitarian access in Syria. At least 280 shipments of cross-border aid have been delivered because of the UK co-sponsored UN Security Council Resolutions 2165, 2191 and 2258.</p><p>The Department for International Development works closely with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as part of a whole of government response to the Syria crisis. The FCO are raising issues of humanitarian access across Syria with their Russian counterparts at every opportunity.</p><p>We continue to use our position in the UN Security Council and the International Syria Support Group to call on all sides to the conflict and their backers – including Russia - to respect International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and to ensure free, unimpeded access for humanitarian agencies.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/05/2016 12:34:07 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

515413

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34222, on the humanitarian situation in Madaya, what medical equipment has been removed from convoys by the Syrian regime.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	35214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>It is unacceptable that medical items are being systematically removed from humanitarian convoys inside Syria, the vast majority by the Assad Regime. According to the UN, 80,000 medical treatments were excluded or removed from their convoys in February 2016 alone. Items removed include essential life-saving medical items such as surgical and anaesthetic supplies and blood bags. These are exactly the items that are vital to treat victims of bombings or shelling, as well as essential to treat accidental trauma and for Caesarean sections or some complicated deliveries. Other items such as diarrhoea kits, emergency health kits, antibiotics, and other medicines have been removed.</p><p> </p><p>The UK continues to use our position in the UN Security Council and the International Syria Support Group to press for an end to the removal of medical equipment from convoys by the Regime, the evacuation of critical medical cases and regular access to healthcare for besieged populations.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/05/2016 12:33:00 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

515414

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34222, on the humanitarian situation in Madaya, for what reasons the UN had to seek written approval from the Syrian regime.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	35212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>Attempting to deliver humanitarian assistance without the consent of the parties to the conflict is extremely challenging. There is a risk that shipments of humanitarian assistance would be physically stopped and confiscated, humanitarian staff placed in danger and that convoys could come under attack. Likewise, delivering assistance without consent may risk undermining ongoing negotiations on humanitarian access to the 4.6 million people in hard to reach areas across Syria.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/05/2016 12:32:33 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

515415

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34222, on the humanitarian situation in Madaya, for what reasons approval was not given for aid convoys to access five of the eleven besieged locations.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	35213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>We are relieved that, as a result of the work of the International Syria Support Group, humanitarian convoys have reached over 220,000 - 45% - of the 487,000 people living in besieged areas since February 2016. However, progress is too slow. In particular, the Syrian Regime has still not granted approval for convoys to the besieged areas of Duma, East Harasta and Darayya, all of which are in dire need and mere minutes’ drive away from UN warehouses in Damascus.</p><p>Reasons cited by the regime for not authorising access include the lack of civilians in these areas as well as their inability to guarantee security for humanitarian actors. However, reports from humanitarian actors, including the UN, demonstrate the significant presence of civilians in areas to which access has been denied. For example, on a recent mission to besieged Darayya on 16 April, the UN reported the presence of thousands of civilians including women and children. In addition, whilst we recognise the importance of security concerns, experience in other besieged areas demonstrates that these populations can be reached safely.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 03/05/2016 12:33:46 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

515000

registered interest
date	22/04/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Bangladesh: Conditions of Employment
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 encourage UK companies to sign up to the Bangladesh Safety Accord.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	35109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has repeatedly called for companies to take responsibility for the working conditions of all those that make their clothes. This has included the Westminster Debate on 30 April, repeat Ministerial visits to Bangladesh, communications around the Rana Plaza anniversary, and numerous meetings with retailers and buyers.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 29/04/2016 10:42:20 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali