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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
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

347430

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date	29/05/2015
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: Vaccination
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 immunisation programmes in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2015 answer text <p>DFID primarily supports immunisation programmes in developing countries through the provision of funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is the largest donor to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is a public-private partnership that saves lives by increasing access to immunisation in developing countries. Since 2000, Gavi has vaccinated half a billion children and saved 7 million lives. The UK will provide a total of £1.44 billion to Gavi over 2016-2020. It is estimated that UK support will save a child’s life every 2 minutes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK is also a key donor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which is working to eradicate polio by 2019. Since GPEI’s creation, global polio cases have fallen by more than 99%. Africa has now been polio free for nearly 1 year. The UK has committed £300 million to polio eradication over 2013-2019.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 05/06/2015 12:14:09 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

348206

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
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: Education
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 promote access to education in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	900071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>Improving access to education and the quality of learning is a priority for the Department. We are on track to support 11 million children in primary and lower secondary school by 2015. We have also committed to help at least 11 million children in the poorest countries gain a decent education by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 03/06/2015 15:41:19 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg