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1006103

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date	13/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	UNESCO
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the Government's policy is on the UK's (a) future membership of and (b) future funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	190950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>There has been no change to our membership or funding commitment to UNESCO. The UK continues to work closely with UNESCO and other member states to ensure it makes crucial reforms to deliver the best results and value for taxpayers’ money. We make ongoing assessments of multi-agency performance, consideration of whether Agencies are providing value for tax payers’ money is an important part of these assessments.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/11/2018 16:17:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1006175

registered interest
date	13/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) education and (b) interfaith initiatives her Department has funded in Pakistan to promote tolerance and interfaith harmony in schools in each year for which information is available, and how much her Department has spent on each such initiative.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	190747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Since 2011, DFID has benefited 10 million primary and nearly 6 million secondary students in Pakistan. Inclusion and respect for minorities forms an integral part of provincial and national education programmes. Our work to promote tolerance and interfaith harmony includes: training nearly 100,000 teachers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Punjab in equity and inclusion; funding the Alif Ailaan education campaign which focusses on religious minorities; and engaging with education civil society organisations to champion issues of inclusion and raise these with government. Through the KP Education Support Programme (KESP) and the Punjab Education Support Programme II (PESP II), DFID has also provided technical assistance to provincial governments to revise the school curriculum and remove discriminatory content from textbooks. Since 2011, DFID has invested £678.7m in education in Pakistan, including £122.7m in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/11/2018 16:16:27 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1005661

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nigeria: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps his Department is taking to support the humanitarian needs and safe return of the estimated 30,000 Anglophone refugees who have fled into Nigeria during the recent violence in Cameroon.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	190392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>This year DFID Nigeria has provided £20 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross who provide life-saving assistance to people affected by conflicts across Nigeria, including refugees from Cameroon, as well as those affected by the conflict in the north east and by inter-communal violence. Support to refugees from Cameroon includes the provision of essential household items such as clothes, hygiene products, cooking utensils and mosquito nets. DFID have a humanitarian adviser based in Cameroon working with partners on humanitarian issues in the country and are funding a protection adviser in the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs working across the region on the Anglophone Crisis.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 19/11/2018 17:05:49 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1005892

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
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: Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many projects funded by her Department support the long-term needs of victims of (a) explosive violence, (b) land mines and (c) other weapons.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	190566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>DFID does not fund individual victim assistant programmes, as set out in the UK’s mine action policy. Support and assistance to victims of landmines and improvised explosive devices (ERW) is best provided through broader social and economic development programmes in affected countries, rather than through targeting particular groups.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clearing-a-path-to-development-mine-action" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clearing-a-path-to-development-mine-action</a>.</p><p>DFID has committed £100million over three years to reduce the impact of landmines and ERW on communities through programmes that survey and clear land; provide mine risk education to help communities to understand the dangers of abandoned mines and ERW; and help governments manage their own landmine and ERW contamination more efficiently.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 17:57:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1005893

registered interest
date	12/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Conflict Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the programmes to (a) promote peace-building and (b) prevent conflict that are in receipt of funding by her Department.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	190567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>All details of DFID programmes on peacebuilding and conflict prevention are published on the Development Tracker at <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/</a> in line with DFID’s transparency policy and commitments. This includes centrally managed funding to the UN Peacebuilding Fund and bilateral projects focused on specific countries, all of which can be searched using the relevant key words. Details are updated routinely once a month. Prior to this all new data is required to go through an approval stage before they are eligible for publication. From the date this approval is received it can take up to 2 months for that information to publish to the Development tracker. This is to enable the project team to ensure that the information that they have provided is correct prior to the monthly publication refresh.</p><p>Where funding from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund is managed by DFID, programme summaries for all can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/conflict-stability-and-security-fund-programme-summaries#programme-summaries</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 17:58:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1003686

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of contracts issued by his Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	189568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>DFID’s standard contract terms and conditions require DFID contractors to pay undisputed sums due to their sub-contractors within 30 days from the receipt of a valid invoice and to ensure all sub-contracts contain the same provision.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 17:59:33 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1003700

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Land Mines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department spent on the clearance of landmines and improvised explosive devices in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	189555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Between October 2017 and October 2018 the Department for International Development spent £45,308,302 on programmes that reduce the humanitarian impact of landmines and improvised explosive devices (ERW). These programmes survey and clear land contaminated by landmines and ERW; provide mine risk education sessions to help communities understand the dangers of landmines and ERW; and support national mine action authorities to manage contamination effectively and efficiently.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/11/2018 16:52:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1003780

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Non-governmental Organisations: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what information her Department holds on the number of NGOs that have (a) relocated from the UK and (b) opened additional offices in another EU country since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	189778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Development does not hold systemic information on the relocation or opening of additional offices of NGOs. Where NGOs have an active funding arrangement with us, they inform us of a change in registered address when that occurs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 18:00:36 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1003781

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	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 projects funded by her Department have had a reduction in their activities as a result of changes in the value of the pound since June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	189779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>DFID’s policy is to sign agreements and make payments in sterling to mitigate foreign exchange risk. Activities within programmes will have increased and decreased since 2016 for a variety of reasons. It is not possible to identify which might be the result of foreign exchange movements.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/11/2018 18:01:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1003828

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Internally Displaced People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent estimate she has made of the number of internally displaced persons in Yemen; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	189544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimate that up to three million people have been displaced since the conflict began in Yemen in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>IOM reports that over 455,040 people were displaced from and within Hodeidah governorate between 1 June and 23 October 2018, and that over 80,000 people have been displaced from and within Hajjah governorate since 1 June 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Last year the UK provided protection assistance, including primary health services, legal assistance and support in response to sexual violence, to over 200,000 vulnerable people through IOM and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/11/2018 17:02:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham