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date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Disasters Emergency Committee
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Disasters Emergency Committee regarding openness and transparency in using public donations, in the light of the earthquakes in Nepal in 2015 and previous disasters.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Funds raised by the British public for the DEC appeal have already reached over £85 million, which includes £5 million in matched funding provided by DFID. UK Government representatives in Nepal’s meet regularly with Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) members to discuss the ongoing earthquake response, recovery and reconstruction efforts.</p><p>The DEC publishes regular updates on the Nepal response on their website and through social media. Information on how funds are being used is also shared directly to donors via email and post. The DEC has also commissioned and published an independent evaluation of the work, which I have attached for ease, of members in Nepal which particularly focuses on the emergency response phase.</p><p>The DEC is planning on producing a ‘one year on’ report which will be published on the anniversary of the earthquake. This will give details of how funds were raised, how they were disbursed to member agencies, how they have been spent and what has been achieved.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma grouped question UIN HL6718 HL6719 question first answered 21/03/2016 15:38:47 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma attachment 1 file name DEC HC Nepal response review - to attach to HL6718, 6719, 6717.pdf title DEC HC Nepal response review
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

457900

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date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nepal: Earthquakes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Disasters Emergency Committee about when it will publish its summary of how money donated by the public to the recovery and rebuilding efforts in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake was spent.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Funds raised by the British public for the DEC appeal have already reached over £85 million, which includes £5 million in matched funding provided by DFID. UK Government representatives in Nepal’s meet regularly with Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) members to discuss the ongoing earthquake response, recovery and reconstruction efforts.</p><p>The DEC publishes regular updates on the Nepal response on their website and through social media. Information on how funds are being used is also shared directly to donors via email and post. The DEC has also commissioned and published an independent evaluation of the work, which I have attached for ease, of members in Nepal which particularly focuses on the emergency response phase.</p><p>The DEC is planning on producing a ‘one year on’ report which will be published on the anniversary of the earthquake. This will give details of how funds were raised, how they were disbursed to member agencies, how they have been spent and what has been achieved.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma grouped question UIN HL6717 HL6719 question first answered 21/03/2016 15:38:47 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma attachment 1 file name DEC HC Nepal response review - to attach to HL6718, 6719, 6717.pdf title DEC HC Nepal response review
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

457901

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date	07/03/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nepal: Earthquakes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of their recommendation that members of the public donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for Nepal following the earthquakes in 2015, what assessment they have made of (1) how much money was donated to that appeal, (2) how soon after the emergency those funds were spent, (3) individual donors’ levels of satisfaction with how their donations were spent, (4) how that money was shared between NGOs that are members of the DEC and Nepalese NGOs, and (5) what effect that spending had.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Funds raised by the British public for the DEC appeal have already reached over £85 million, which includes £5 million in matched funding provided by DFID. UK Government representatives in Nepal’s meet regularly with Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) members to discuss the ongoing earthquake response, recovery and reconstruction efforts.</p><p>The DEC publishes regular updates on the Nepal response on their website and through social media. Information on how funds are being used is also shared directly to donors via email and post. The DEC has also commissioned and published an independent evaluation of the work, which I have attached for ease, of members in Nepal which particularly focuses on the emergency response phase.</p><p>The DEC is planning on producing a ‘one year on’ report which will be published on the anniversary of the earthquake. This will give details of how funds were raised, how they were disbursed to member agencies, how they have been spent and what has been achieved.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma grouped question UIN HL6717 HL6718 question first answered 21/03/2016 15:38:47 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma attachment 1 file name DEC HC Nepal response review - to attach to HL6718, 6719, 6717.pdf title DEC HC Nepal response review
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool