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date	05/09/2014
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
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 encourage clothing retailers to interrogate their supply chains in China to assess the working conditions of people working in that country.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	208392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The UK government works with business to provide guidance for companies to meet their obligations to respect human rights throughout their operations. Recent changes to the Companies Act have strengthened requirements for company reporting to include these issues.</p><p> </p><p>DFID has developed a package of activities - including engagement with clothing retailers - to address unsafe working conditions in the garment sector in Bangladesh, following the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, which will have wider benefits. In terms of UK companies engaging with HMG on working conditions, DFID does not have a bilateral programme with China.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 10/09/2014 16:36:09 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

90869

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date	05/09/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by her Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The proportion of named day written questions answered by the Department for International Development within the prescribed period is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p><strong>Session</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of named day written questions answered on time</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) 2012-13</p><p> </p></td><td><p>97.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) 2013-14</p><p> </p></td><td><p>99.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) 2014-15 (as of Friday 5 September 2014)</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental performance information for ordinary and named day Parliamentary Questions is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 12/09/2014 11:29:55 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn