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date	15/06/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Rami Aman
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken in response to the arrest of Rami Aman in Gaza in April for engaging in online dialogue with Israelis; and whether they have called for his release.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL5631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>We strongly condemn the detention of Rami Aman by Hamas. The UK retains a policy of no contact with Hamas in its entirety. Hamas has de facto control over the Gaza Strip. We monitor the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories closely, including reporting on human rights violations in the FCO's annual Human Rights and Democracy Report.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 02/07/2020 14:39:23 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1200998

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date	08/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians: Development Aid
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the value for money of aid sent to the Palestinian Authority, following reports that it spends seven per cent of its budget, and up to 40 per cent of its foreign aid receipts, on payments to terrorists and their families.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL5340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>No UK aid is used for payments to prisoners or their families or the so called Martyrs Fund. Our financial support to the Palestinian Authority health and education sectors goes into a dedicated bank account and is only paid to individual workers carefully vetted through the PEGASE mechanism (Palestinian-European Socio-Economic Management Assistance Mechanism). Each payment is independently audited to ensure it has been received by the intended recipient.</p><p>As is standard practice for all DFID programmes, we assess value for money for the UK taxpayer annually through our review process. Last year UK aid enabled 26,000 young Palestinians in the West Bank to get an education, delivered 3,300 MMR vaccinations for children and enabled 111,000 medical consultations. This is an important contribution towards supporting a stable Palestinian Authority (PA) that can deliver essential services to Palestinians and act as an effective partner for peace with Israel.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 22/06/2020 15:38:22 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann