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179647

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
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 training in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Spend on Training and Development is managed through individual DFID Departments and Country Offices, and therefore providing this information can only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 27/02/2015 14:31:37 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179648

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's training budget was in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The majority of Training and Development Budgets are allocated by individual DFID Departments and Country Offices, and therefore providing this information can only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 27/02/2015 14:31:19 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179649

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in her Department was in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for training in DFID is decentralised to departments and country offices. We do not maintain a central record of the training undertaken by individuals. To gather the information retrospectively would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 27/02/2015 14:30:56 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179652

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what guidance her Department provides to its managers on how many days training should be made available to staff.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Cabinet Office advises departments that staff should aim to have at least 5 days per year training and development.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 27/02/2015 14:30:26 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170495

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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 estimate she has made of the savings to her Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems her Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment she has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>Following the introduction of the Q&amp;A system, the Department cancelled an annual subscription to receive a daily feed of Parliamentary Questions (PQs) tabled to the Department. This has resulted in a saving of just over £6500 per year. In addition, the Department has made savings associated with the cost of printing hardcopies of PQs and delivering answers to Parliament each day. The Department worked with the House authorities in order to ensure that the introduction of the system did not require any changes or improvements to the Department’s existing ICT systems. DFID Ministers are committed to ensuring that written PQs receive timely answers, and it is welcome that the new system ensures that hon and Rt hon Members receive their answers instantly once uploaded.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>One of the benefits of the new system is the possibility for the reporting of the timeliness of answers to Parliamentary Questions to be delivered with greater consistency and accuracy across all answering bodies. It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 06/01/2015 12:43:51 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100219

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department made towards achieving the departmental digital strategy objective of becoming digital by default.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>DFID’s Digital Strategy 12 Months On Report (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-development-digital-strategy-2012-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-development-digital-strategy-2012-to-2015</a>) details our Department’s progress during 2013. We will publish a report on our progress made during 2014 in December 2014. This will include updates on delivering better results, building capability in our staff, making it easy to do business with DFID (such as the new international development funding finder) and improving the way we communicate on major issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 24/10/2014 12:53:43 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100224

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress in digital service delivery her Department has made since setting up the Digital Advisory Panel.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Digital Advisory Panel has focused on the areas of work outlined in the DFID digital strategy and challenged the department to look at ways of improving how digital can support delivery of results in our development programmes, improve our internal business processes, and help us become more open and engaging. We will publish a report on our progress in December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 24/10/2014 12:54:42 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

99908

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Development Tracker; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Development Tracker was launched by the Secretary of State on 31 October 2013 to present project documents, budgets, transactions and locations of DFID projects in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) open data standard. The Tracker has enabled a step change in public access to information on how UK development assistance is being used.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Tracker is continually assessed and improved according to user need. The Tracker has 14000 visits and 80000 page views per month. There are 2442 email subscribers and 12949 email alerts were delivered in October 2014. Almost 60% of users are from the UK, with a wide range of users from countries where we work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Tracker has received positive feedback from users. In October 2014, DFID was ranked 2nd in the global Publish What You Fund Aid Transparency Index which noted that the Tracker represents “a major step forward in improving the accessibility of information on UK development assistance by integrating IATI data for NGO implementing partners with its own data and that of other UK government departments”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 23/10/2014 16:44:36 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

93338

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons priorities on a digital approach have not been included in her Department's latest individual performance objectives for 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	210571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>DFID has published several documents that illustrate the importance placed on how digital can support our activities. First, our position is clearly outlined in our digital strategy (published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-development-digital-strategy-2012-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-development-digital-strategy-2012-to-2015</a>). It confirms digital is an enabler that will help us achieve the departments overarching priorities. The annual update published January 2014 set out our plans for this year, and we are currently working on an update which will cover progress this year and plans for 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Secondly we refer to our digital priorities in the Departmental Improvement Plan (published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-departmental-improvement-plan--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-departmental-improvement-plan--2</a>) as an integral part of the Departmental approach to continuous improvement and development.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, (and this is referenced in the Permanent Secretary’s individual performance objectives as published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329087/Mark_Lowcock_objectives_2014-15.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329087/Mark_Lowcock_objectives_2014-15.pdf</a> ) he is clear that improving digital capability is one of the Civil Service Reform priority areas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 21/10/2014 15:21:35 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah