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428437

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the cost effectiveness of (a) cataract surgery, (b) correction of refractive error, (c) interventions against trachoma and (d) other public health interventions.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Hurd
uin	16415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>DFID uses evidence on the cost-effectiveness of health interventions to inform DFID investment decisions. This includes the World Health Organisation CHOICE (CHOosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective) project that provides detailed cost-effectiveness estimates of a large number of interventions to reduce risks to health, including many causes of blindness. DFID’s aim is to maximise health gains through targeted, cost-effective health interventions that are delivered through strengthened, more efficient and effective health systems.</p><br /><p>Every DFID project is rigorously appraised before approval. During implementation each project is regularly monitored to examine whether the targeted results are on track, whether the project represents value for money and remains cost effective, and what, if any, corrective action needs to be undertaken. DFID considers alternative approaches and cost-effectiveness, amongst other factors, whenever we make an investment. The best value for money in a given country at a given time will depend on many factors, including the local context and what others are doing.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps grouped question UIN 16413 question first answered 23/11/2015 16:01:13 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd

428438

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assumptions her Department has made on (a) global levels of avoidable blindness and low vision and (b) projected levels of those problems in 2020 in planning its work.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Hurd
uin	16414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest available evidence on the burden of disease is used in planning our work. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. Data on levels and trends of the burden of diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them are an important input to health decision-making for national governments and development partners.When making investment decisions DFID considers many factors, including the burden of disease, to ensure that we deliver value for money and that we address the health needs of the countries we support.</p><br /> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 23/11/2015 16:24:10 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd

427788

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Droughts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what additional support her Department plans to give to Ethiopia because of drought in that country in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	15904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>We are extremely concerned about the impact of the current drought on the food security situation in Ethiopia. A joint Government of Ethiopia and UN assessment is underway and we are in touch with our UN and Non-Governmental Organisation partners on the ground to determine the extent of need.</p><br /><p>In October, the Government of Ethiopia announced that about 8.2 million people are in need of emergency food aid, up from the 4.5 million estimated in August. The number of severely malnourished children under five years old admitted to therapeutic feeding programmes this year has increased notably.</p><br /><p>Britain has acted quickly and decisively by providing emergency support for 2.6 million people. This includes food aid for 2.1 million people for a month. The Government of Ethiopia has also committed its largest ever response to a drought. The international community will need to work hard with the Government of Ethiopia to prevent the crisis from worsening in the coming months.</p><br /><p>DFID is at the forefront of resilience work to reduce the impact of crises in developing countries. In Ethiopia, DFID’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP) has helped turn desert land into land that can be farmed again.</p><br /> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:03:25 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

427790

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Famine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will discuss with (a) EU partners and (b) the World Food Programme to ensure food supplies to people affected by the famine in Ethiopia.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	15776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>We are extremely concerned about the impact of the current drought on the food security situation in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has shown great strides in development but remains fragile in the face of extreme climate events such as El Nino. The Government of Ethiopia is fully engaged and prioritising efforts to address the needs, having spent many years building up crisis response systems. The international community is working in support of the Government and the UK along with the EU, is one of the leading donors to the response. We are in daily contact with the World Food Programme (WFP) which is delivering supplies to people affected in support of the Government. A joint Government-UN assessment has just taken place and we are also assessing that food supplies reach those affected. We have also recently provided additional funding to WFP’s relief programme.</p><br /><p>DFID’s Permanent Secretary Mark Lowcock visited Ethiopia from 9-12 November, and discussed the situation with senior members of the Ethiopian Government and partners. We are urging others to do more to support the Government response to the crisis.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:31:38 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

427792

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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: Malnutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to support the eradication of malnutrition.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	16005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made a commitment to improve the nutrition of 50 million people by 2020. Those being helped include children under five, breastfeeding women, women of childbearing age and adolescent girls. This builds on an earlier commitment to help children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women, through which 28.5 million people had been reached by mid-2015.</p><br /><p>DFID support is focused on the following objectives: greater coverage of nutrition-specific programmes; leverage more nutrition outcomes from other programmes like agriculture, social protection, education, health and water and sanitation; contribute to new solutions to undernutrition; and a more effective international response.</p><br /> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:07:59 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

427227

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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: 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 she is taking to improve the resilience of healthcare provision in West Africa.
tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
uin	15628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>In countries affected by the Ebola virus, DFID is committed to building resilient health systems and to ensuring we learn the lessons from the crisis.</p><p>The World Health Organisation declared Sierra Leone ‘Ebola free’ on 7 November 2015. The UK’s objective is to maintain the vigilance necessary to prevent any future outbreaks from growing into epidemics. The UK has announced a two-year £240 million package of support to Sierra Leone’s long term recovery, which includes boosting capability to respond to future Ebola outbreaks, and improving basic services including, vitally, healthcare. DFID will also support Liberia’s Health Pooled fund with £6 million to help ensure that health system is resilient to future shocks.</p><p>Beyond Sierra Leone and Liberia, DFID is providing £17 million through its Regional Preparedness Programme, which aims to prevent the transmission and spread of the Ebola in at-risk countries in West Africa; and to strengthen national capacities to accelerate preparedness measures and improve readiness to detect and act to contain disease outbreaks.</p><p>In doing this, as well as through wider health programmes across West Africa, we are helping countries to have better health systems for normal times – as well as in case of emergency.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:15:59 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

427228

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Ministry of Defence expenditure her Department considered to be spending on international development in each year from 2006 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Sleaford and North Hykeham
tabling member printed	Stephen Phillips
uin	15625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence did not spend any Official Development Assistance during the years 2006-2010. Figures for 2011-2014 are shown in the table below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>MoD Spend on ODA (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> <br> <br> <br></p><p>*2014 data is provisional. Final figures for 2014 will be published on the DFID website on Thursday 3<sup>rd</sup> December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:25:26 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4054 label Biography information for Stephen Phillips

427229

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nigeria: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will assess the effect on the Nigerian (a) economy and (b) society of (i) Boko Haram and (ii) other terrorist groups.
tabling member constituency	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
tabling member printed	Tom Elliott
uin	15632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>Terrorist activities from Boko Haram and other groups have killed more than 15,000 people and caused a major humanitarian crisis. There are an estimated 2.2 million internally displaced people, most of them in host communities, putting an additional pressure on what is already a fragile social environment. Around 6.4 million people are in need of humanitarian support due to disruption of food supply, limitation of livelihood activities, and destruction of basic service facilities like health centres or schools. An estimated 600,000 children are out of school.</p><br /><p>Boko Haram violent extremism has destroyed the economy in the North East. Local chambers of commerce in the North East report that business activity has dropped by 80% over the past three years. The national economy is also affected. Major trade routes for the Nigerian market and with neighbouring countries have been disrupted. And the need for the Government of Nigeria to spend significant additional resources on emergency response and defence has reduced funds available for economic and social investments.</p><br /><p>In response to this crisis, DFID is providing a substantial package of security, development and humanitarian support to Nigeria including a £6.5 million in humanitarian programme and a £5.4 million development portfolio in Yobe state. This is complemented by a £12.1 million funding through the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) for programmes implemented by DFID and other departments to mitigate conflict and enhance security forces capability. During my visit to Nigeria in October, I saw first-hand the interfaith peace clubs supported by DFID to build community cohesion and the excellent work the UK military is doing in training the Nigerian army in the fight against Boko Haram.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 16:47:34 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4367 label Biography information for Tom Elliott

427230

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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: Sanitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's budget was spent on supporting water, sanitation and hygiene services in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Meriden
tabling member printed	Mrs Caroline Spelman
uin	15677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>Expenditure by sector is reported in Statistics on International Development (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2014</a>).</p><br /><p>The table below shows the proportion of DFID bilateral aid spent on water, sanitation and hygiene for the last 5 years for which data are available.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Water and Sanitation Expenditure (£ million)</strong></p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>112</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Proportion of Total DFID Bilateral Programme </strong></p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td><td><p>3.4%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td><td><p>3.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>When DFID or other UK government departments provide core contributions in support of multilateral organisations, we do not break down by sector. However, there are a number of multilateral organisations that are focussed on water and sanitation. Details of the contributions from DFID to each multilateral organisation can be found at Table A8, online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2014</a>.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 19/11/2015 13:22:20 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman

426843

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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: Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the reasons why only 37 per cent of the millennium development goals in the UK's 28 priority countries have been marked as met or will be met in her Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	15243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The majority of DFID’s priority countries are fragile or conflict-affected. These states have historically been under supported by the international development community. DFID increased its focus and spend in fragile states in 2010 and it was right to do so.</p><br /><p>Progress against the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is driven by the collective action of developing countries and all development partners. DFID’s development programmes are designed to contribute towards these goals.</p><br /><p>DFID’s ongoing Bilateral Aid Review will assess and review progress towards the MDGs as part of our strategic planning processes to inform future programming.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 16/11/2015 17:55:42 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain