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date	04/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ebola
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the World Health Organisation on global preparedness in the event of further Ebola outbreaks.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	198730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK takes the threat of Ebola to global health security very seriously. The Secretary of State has engaged regularly with the Director General of the World Health Organisation about the current outbreak in DRC and how the UK can provide support to the response. The current response is building on previous UK investments on preparedness and health systems; the experimental vaccine used in DRC was developed with UK support after the West Africa outbreak in 2014-15.</p><p>More broadly DFID is investing £40million over four years through the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Programme (TDDAP) to support preparedness, detection and response work for diseases including Ebola in the countries most at risk. Our ongoing work to support WHO reform is paying dividends in the current response.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/12/2018 17:44:50 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1019891

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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, with reference to the Government’s response to the Fifth Report of the International Development Committee, HC246 of Session 2014-15 on Strengthening Health Systems in Developing Countries, when her Department plans to publish its position paper on health systems strengthening.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	198914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>DFID will publish a health systems strengthening position paper in 2019 outlining our approach to provision of quality, accessible services, ensuring respect for people’s rights and leaving no one behind. Across the world, countries will need stronger health systems if we are to make progress towards the UN Global Goal for health and well-being, including achieving universal health coverage.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/12/2018 17:07:20 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1019937

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if her Department will publish the loans made by (a) the UK Aid Agency and (b) British Companies in relation to the UK's International Development Programme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	198827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Official Development Assistance (ODA) is defined by the OECD Development Assistance Committee as resource flows to developing countries and multilateral organisations, which are provided by official agencies, for example the UK Government or its executive agencies.</p><p> </p><p>Under the definition, a total of £1,567 million of UK ODA was provided in loans in 2017. Of the total, DFID provided £21 million in bilateral loans to developing countries and £820 million for a multilateral loan to the World Bank in 2017. A non-DFID multilateral loan of £726 million was also provided to the International Monetary Fund in 2017. Details of these loans are submitted online in the Development Tracker.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/12/2018 17:36:12 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1019965

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Global Compact for Migration
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 potential merits of the proposed UN migration pact; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	198799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Well-managed migration is in everyone’s interests. But uncontrolled migration erodes public confidence, damages economies, and places people on the move in situations of great vulnerability. The UK is taking significant steps to tackle uncontrolled migration both in our domestic policy work and in our ODA-funded programmes by:</p><ul><li><p>Addressing the root causes of migration, through our targeted assistance for livelihoods, healthcare, education and economic development;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Tackling modern slavery and organised immigration crime;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Supporting enhanced border management;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Providing critical humanitarian support and protection for vulnerable migrants, as well as offering voluntary return and vital reintegration support to those wishing to return home; and</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Supporting refugees to stay in a first safe country through our humanitarian and development work in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.</p></li></ul><p>The Global Compact for Migration is one way in which we are working to ensure that UK migration priorities are embedded throughout the international system. It is a step forward in international co-operation to tackle irregular migration and helpful framework to help us deliver our commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals.</p><p>The Compact is not legally binding. It creates a framework that will allow countries to work together to make migration more beneficial for everyone. It protects every State’s right to determine its own immigration policies, including in areas such as asylum, border controls and returns of illegal migrants.</p><p>I recently spoke to the APPGs on Migration and Refugees about the Migration Compact and attended the intergovernmental launch in Marrakech. We will issue a Written Ministerial Statement to update parliament.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/12/2018 17:13:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1019986

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Colombia: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Afro-descendant-led organisations in Colombia are in receipt of UK Government funding.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	198881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) data is collected and reported according to a standard international classification produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).</p><p>Following this classification, data is collected by broad groups of delivery partners and reported as such in TableA5 of DFID’s Statistics on International Development publication, available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2017" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/12/2018 17:15:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins