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registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which periodicals and newspapers her Department subscribes to; what quantity of each periodical is so obtained; and what the cost of such subscriptions was in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	5018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>DFID communications division’s total spend on newspapers and periodicals in the 2014/15 financial year was £4,466. Following a savings drive in November 2014 DFID’s communications division no longer subscribes to print periodicals, saving around £1,400 a year.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 07/07/2015 16:24:14 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps previous answer version 11515 answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

386191

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Tropical Diseases
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 the patenting of new drugs on their price and availability to treat neglected tropical diseases overseas.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	4494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>Most drugs required to treat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are donated free of charge by pharmaceutical companies. However, in some cases the drugs need to be purchased. In these cases we work to secure good value for money in our procurement and also encourage flexible approaches to increase availability, such as licensing and technology transfer partnerships with low-cost, high-quality generic manufacturers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID also funds research into new NTD treatments through Product Development Partnerships (PDPs). PDPs use patents flexibly to ensure products are available at lowest possible cost. This includes negotiating royalty-free access to patented products and developing products as ‘open source’ so that anyone can use them, with requirements for distribution at the lowest possible cost. PDPs can also patent new products at an early stage and then use the patent to attract partners to help develop the products and make them available at the lowest possible cost.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 02/07/2015 16:22:48 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

385884

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	West Africa: Ebola
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress her Department has made on tackling ebola in West Africa; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	4280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s main objective is to support the Government of Sierra Leone to reach and then maintain zero cases of Ebola as quickly as possible. Huge progress has been made, and it is clear our strategy is working. Case numbers have reduced from a peak of more than 500 in late November 2014, to eight cases in the week ending 21<sup>st</sup> June 2015. We expect there to be a bumpy tail of cases before zero is reached and so we cannot become complacent. The UK response will continue to adapt as the epidemiology changes, and will remain flexible and responsive until Sierra Leone gets to zero. We are now proactively seeking out cases through enhanced active surveillance, strengthened social mobilisation, and scaling up of contact tracing - all critical in the final mile to reach zero.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 30/06/2015 16:12:15 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

385885

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Diseases: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department allocates annually for research into neglected tropical diseases.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	4389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK is providing over £10 million annually for research into Neglected Tropical Diseases. This is through a range of initiatives, including development of new treatment and diagnostic products, as well as implementation research. Examples of products produced by the research in recent years include the first ever rapid diagnostic test for sleeping sickness as well as a safer drug for treating the disease.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 01/07/2015 15:51:20 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

385886

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Tuberculosis
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 allocates each year to ensure that people in the developing world living with HIV who have also contracted tuberculosis have access to anti-tuberculosis drugs.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	4390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK remains the second biggest international donor on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, spending a total of £374 million in the last financial year for which figures are available. A proportion of this includes programmes promoting integrated responses to tackling TB-HIV co-infection.</p><p> </p><p>The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is the main financing mechanism for the UK’s support to TB and HIV. As of December 2014, Global Fund programmes have supported 7.3 million people with HIV to access antiretroviral therapy and have tested and treated 12.3 million people for TB.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 4391 question first answered 01/07/2015 15:51:46 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

385887

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
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 allocates each year to ensure that individuals in the developing world living with HIV have access to HIV drugs.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	4391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK remains the second biggest international donor on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, spending a total of £374 million in the last financial year for which figures are available. A proportion of this includes programmes promoting integrated responses to tackling TB-HIV co-infection.</p><p> </p><p>The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria is the main financing mechanism for the UK’s support to TB and HIV. As of December 2014, Global Fund programmes have supported 7.3 million people with HIV to access antiretroviral therapy and have tested and treated 12.3 million people for TB.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 4390 question first answered 01/07/2015 15:51:46 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

385072

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which 20 companies were awarded the most funding by her Department for technical and advisory services in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	3729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>DFID publishes full contract information on the Contracts Finder website: <a href="https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 29/06/2015 16:20:14 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

348570

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Family Planning
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 takes to ensure that UK aid is not provided to coercive family-planning schemes or to organisations that are complicit in such schemes.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK Government supports the work of various international organisations and agencies to promote informed choice, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s empowerment. All UK support to improve sexual and reproductive health – including for family planning – must be provided in the context of informed choice.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 15:40:47 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348571

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	China: Family Planning
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 1 June 2015 to Question 20, whether any UK funding is provided to multinational organisations that assist organisations that are closely involved with China's one-child policy.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>No organisations the UK funds, who work in China, promote the one-child policy. The UK Government supports the work of various international organisations and agencies to promote informed choice, universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s empowerment, including voluntary family planning.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 15:41:27 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

348572

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Abortion: Sex Selection
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 1 June 2015 to Question 20, what the evidential basis is for the statement that sex selection is not caused by the availability of abortion services or technologies; whether her Department considers that antenatal scanning equipment facilitates sex-selective abortion; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	1255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The World Health Organisation document “Preventing gender-biased sex selection. An interagency statement”, available online, includes more information and extensive references on these issues.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 09/06/2015 16:35:16 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello