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643948

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to undertake a stocktake review of her Department's work on HIV to assess its comparative performance with other countries (a) in general and (b) on Sustainable Development Goal 3.3.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	54888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I provided on 7 November to Question numbers 51481 and 51482.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 01/12/2016 17:24:28 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

643949

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of its integration of HIV and AIDS prevention programmes into (a) the wider health system and (b) her Department's programmes; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	54890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I provided on 28 November to Question number 54484.</p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 01/12/2016 17:24:54 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

604141

registered interest
date	17/10/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will increase spending on overseas aid to compensate for the loss of value of that aid resulting from the fall in the value of the pound since 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	48819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The government is committed to spending 0.7% of our national income on aid.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 24/10/2016 15:38:32 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

518297

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to support the work of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines; with reference to the Prime Minister's comments on the pharmaceutical industry to the BBC on 2 July 2014, what recent assessment she has made of the steps to take to resolve market failure related to the development of new classes of antibiotics in that industry; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	36813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK is committed to ensuring access to low cost, effective medicines in the developing world, providing a range of significant inputs to increasing access to essential medicines.</p><p> </p><p>We support the provision of essential medicines and other health products through innovative global partnerships such as the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM), UNITAID, GAVI and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). We work to strengthen systems weaknesses, such as weak supply chains or poor procurement, which deter private investment, keep medicines prices high or lead to misuse or waste of medicines. We also place a great emphasis on research and development of new vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for conditions that affect millions of poor people. A new £1 billion fund – the Ross Fund - was recently announced with the aim of developing, testing and delivering a range of new products to help combat the world’s most serious diseases, such as malaria, Ebola and TB in developing countries.</p><p>Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance is a key priority for this Government. We are awaiting the final report of the O’Neill Independent Review on Antimicrobial Resistance later this month and the Department of Health will then lead a cross-Government response.</p><p>We support the aims of the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines. For it to fulfil its potential to improve access to affordable and quality medicines, including antibiotics, it will need to take a balanced approach, building on the WHO Global Strategy and Plan of Action and engaging with existing global partnerships, and use its influence to galvanise Member States, public and private sectors around a common approach to this important issue.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/05/2016 17:00:31 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

517953

registered interest
date	06/05/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Ethiopia: 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 representations the Government has made to the Ethiopian government on the Integrated Development Master Plan; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	36724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government of Ethiopia withdrew the Addis Ababa Master Plan in January 2016 in response to the wave of protests it had triggered in Oromia. The UK government has raised concerns about the unrest in Oromia, and particularly the reports of a large number of deaths, with the Ethiopian Government on a number of occasions. The Secretary of State raised our concerns directly with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister at Davos in January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/05/2016 08:58:04 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

479661

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 27367, in which countries her Department has integrated HIV and sexual reproductive health and rights programmes.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	31659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK puts the empowerment of girls and women at the heart of everything we do. We are the second largest funder of HIV prevention, care and treatment, and have pledged up to £1 billion to the Global Fund. In 2013 an adolescent girl was infected with HIV every two minutes - this is not acceptable, so this is a priority for us with international partners.</p><p>Examples of our approach and countries which DFID has integrated HIV and sexual reproductive health and rights programmes can be found in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Towards+Zero+Infections" target="_blank">“Towards Zero Infections-Two Years On”</a> and on the department’s development tracker, both available on DFID’s website.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/03/2016 15:55:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

453336

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure that HIV prevention is fully integrated into her Department's work on sexual and reproductive health and rights; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	27367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK continues to work with partners to ensure that HIV prevention services are fully integrated and embedded within our work on sexual reproductive health and rights, family planning, maternal and new born health and broader health and development priorities.</p><p>For example, DFID’s integrated Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights programme in Zimbabwe is designed to help reduce maternal mortality, HIV incidence and violence against women through the delivery of better integrated services. Through our focus on women and girl’s empowerment we are also supporting the generation of new evidence to improve outcomes for women and girls, including supporting the development of female initiated HIV prevention technologies, while strengthening health systems and tackling the broader drivers of the epidemic such as stigma, discrimination and gender inequality.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/02/2016 09:41:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

453337

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken or plans to take to build the capacity of communities to (a) engage with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and (b) hold their governments to account for engagement on that issue.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	27366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK is the third largest donor of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, pledging up to £1 billion between 2014 and 2016, subject to a 10% donor share cap. This is improving the lives of millions of people, saving approximately 580,000 lives by preventing 8.4m new malaria, HIV and TB infections.</p><p>The Global Fund encourages active participation of communities at all levels, from grant design, implementation and oversight at country level through country coordination mechanisms, to the Global Fund Board.</p><p>DFID is a founding supporter and pledged up to £9m to the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund. We are also amongst the top five funders of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) which was created in 1996 to respond to the growing HIV/AIDS crisis. Both of these are critical in building the capacity of networks of inadequately served communities to engage with the Global Fund and hold governments to account.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/02/2016 14:28:19 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

442379

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Females
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 implement all of Sustainable Development Goal 5 to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and what steps she is taking to meet target 5.2 to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	20845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK worked hard to secure a comprehensive standalone goal on gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment in the Global Goals, and to integrate gender equality throughout the remaining goals. The new Global Goals will help us to influence others, achieve even more, and are critical to achieving transformational change to the lives of girls and women across the globe. The UK has put women and girls at the heart of our international development and humanitarian work. The UK is committed to helping 6.5 million more girls to go to school over the next 5 years. This programme of work will include tackling the difficult issues that keep girls out of school like FGM and child marriage.</p><br /><p>The UK led efforts across the globe to ensure that a target to end violence against women and girls (VAWG) formed part of the Global Goals. We are now focused on seeing this target implemented. This includes stepping up DFID action to build the evidence base for what works to prevent violence, which will help to convince others that effective action is possible. It also means DFID working with international partners to ensure financial and technical resources are mobilised to tackle VAWG, and working with national and local partners in developing countries to transform social norms to tackle the discriminatory attitudes and behaviours that are the root causes of VAWG.</p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 11/01/2016 14:37:16 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

433843

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Climate Change
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 effect of (a) 1.5, (b) 2, (c) 4 and (d) 6 degrees of global warming on (i) countries belonging to the Climate Vulnerable Forum and the Alliance of Small Island States and (ii) the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	18469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced detailed assessments of the effect of global warming. Its study on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability contained in the 2014 Fifth Assessment Report (available here: <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/" target="_blank">http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/</a>) makes clear how the impacts of climate change are expected to slow down economic growth, erode food security and make poverty reduction more difficult. The report notes that higher levels of warming increase the chance of severe and pervasive impacts.</p><br /><p>The poorest and most vulnerable will be hit first and hardest by climate change and the World Bank has estimated that without action to address climate change it could result in an additional 100 million people living in extreme poverty by 2030. The UK Government is committed to tackling poverty and climate change through its International Climate Fund, which the Prime Minister has announced will increase by 50% over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/12/2015 16:59:33 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas