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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
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registered interest
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