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997169

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether irregularities in UK official development assistance spending were discovered during programme audits and field visits to Gaza in each of the last two years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	184898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK is part of the international effort to provide critical humanitarian and development support to the civilian population in Gaza. DFID is aware of a small number of minor irregularities in UK official development assistance spending on bilateral programmes in Gaza in the last two years. There are inherent risks to delivering aid in Gaza, which is why the UK has stringent controls in place to prevent the diversion of aid and only works with organisations that have a strong track record of delivering humanitarian aid in difficult places. We take immediate and strong action when any irregularities are reported and work closely with partners to prevent future cases. We do not disclose individual case details to protect the integrity of investigations, anonymity of informants and help ensure that we can get the best deal for the UK taxpayer through recovery of funds.</p><p> </p><p>In Gaza, our rigorous controls include: monitoring spending closely; mapping the flow of funds through each organisation involved in delivery; regular audits of programme spending; and field visits. These all enable us to deliver critical assistance to people in need whilst protecting UK taxpayers’ money. Additionally, DFID aid complies with UK and international counter terrorism legislation and our funding agreements commit partners to understand and comply with international counter terrorism legislation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/11/2018 14:00:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

997279

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Palestinians: Women's Rights
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 adequacy of the protection of women's rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and what steps her Department is taking to promote the protection of women's rights in those Territories.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	184874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>According to UN Women, while there has been progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), for example a closing gender gap on literacy rates and amendments to laws discriminatory to women’s rights, the volatile context means this progress is fragile. The occupation and political situation can increase women’s vulnerability to social and economic insecurity and violence; this is heightened in Gaza where the situation remains dire. Female unemployment across the OPTs stood at around 40% in 2017, whereas for males it was 24%. The last available survey from 2010/11 shows that 37% (around 30% in the West Bank and over 51% in Gaza) of ever-married women suffered from a form of violence within the household. UN Women and other UN agencies support the Palestinian Authority in the implementation of gender-sensitive plans and policy-level initiatives to ensure the protection of women’s rights.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a long-term supporter of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) which works to ensure gender equality and the protection of Palestine refugees’ rights in all its programming. UNRWA supports around 1 million Palestinian refugee women across the OPTs and protects their rights to health, water and sanitation, shelter and food security. UNRWA ensures an inclusive approach to protecting children’s right to an education (covering 160,000 girls in the West Bank and Gaza), provides antenatal and postnatal care for more than 50,000 women, and works to protect women and children from violence through access to services and community engagement.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also working to protect women’s economic rights across the OPTs. Our Palestinian Market Development Programme supported a total of 219 female-owned managed enterprises from 2013 to 2018 and helped to create over 800 jobs for women. A new £38 million economic development programme will address barriers faced by women to employment and economic opportunities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/11/2018 13:57:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

994616

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment
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 her French counterpart on placing violence and harassment in the workplace on the agenda for next year’s meeting of the G7.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	183970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for International Development has not yet discussed next year’s G7 agenda with her French counterpart.</p><p> </p><p>The Government strongly supports the adoption of an ILO Convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work. The Government, led by the Department for Work and Pensions, is fully engaged in discussions in the ILO on the scope and content of the proposed Convention and as part of that is in regular contact with other states on this issue.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2018 15:02:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

994617

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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: Conditions of Employment
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 visit the countries in which her Department funds programmes to tackle violence and harassment in the world of work.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	183971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Violence and harassment in the workplace is sadly endemic within many supply chains in the world, which is why our Responsible Accountable Transparent Enterprise programme, through which we are tackling these problems, has a global remit. Promoting the creation of good quality jobs is a focus of most country visits all Ministers undertake.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2018 15:03:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

994618

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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: Conditions of Employment
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 UK businesses working in countries in receipt of Official Development Assistance funding on support provided by those businesses for ending violence and harassment in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	183972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Through the various partners that we work with on this agenda, including the Ethical Trading Initiative, ISEAL Alliance and UN Global Compact, we are providing support to a large constituency of UK businesses on tackling violence and harassment across their operations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2018 15:05:20 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

994066

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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: Capita
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which contracts awarded by her Department are operated by Capita.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	183385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Development does not have any current centrally let contracts with Capita but does have some low value spend with Capita for FY 18/19.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 31/10/2018 17:48:16 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

994099

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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: Mental Health Services
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 provide support for improvements to mental health training for healthcare workers in low and middle income countries.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	183331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>We align our support for health workers in low- and middle-income countries with priorities set by national governments, and the UK’s objective in strengthening local health systems. This includes working to improve the provision, equity and quality of mental health services and supporting the most marginalized to participate in decisions affecting their health. For example, in Ghana our Health Sector Support Programme has supported mental health systems strengthening and efforts to address underlying stigma and discrimination. Our funding for health partnerships between the UK and developing countries has scaled up peer support work in Uganda and delivered mental health training for maternity care providers in Nepal to improve mental health care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2018 15:06:16 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

994115

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	East Africa: Food Supply
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 level of food shortages in (a) Sudan and (b) South Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	183232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Sudan has faced significant economic and environmental challenges in 2017 and 2018 which have led to a sharp rise in the cost of food. The UN and the Government of Sudan estimated in January 2018 that there are 4.8m people in need of assistance to address food insecurity throughout the country in 2018, although this number has increased to an estimated 7.1m in humanitarian need according to UN assessments. The most vulnerable populations are internally displaced persons and refugees from South Sudan. The UK coordinates closely with the UN to monitor the food security situation. The UK is providing £49.2m to the World Food Programme from 2017 to 2020 to address food security for 1.7m people in the worst affected areas, including an increase of £13m in 2018 to support those affected by the current high cost of food.</p><p> </p><p>South Sudan is facing a man-made humanitarian catastrophe following more than four years of fighting. In September 2018, 6.1 million people were estimated to be severely food insecure, including 1.7 million on the edge of famine and 47,000 people in famine-like conditions. This reflects a gradual worsening and broadening of food insecurity in South Sudan. The UK consistently one of the top three humanitarian donors to South Sudan and last year we reached over 420,000 people with food assistance, over 370,000 women and children with nutrition support and over 188,000 families with emergency livelihoods kits to support food production.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 29/10/2018 18:16:39 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

994199

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Bilateral Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reason her Department's bilateral aid spending on (a) human development and (b) economic development declined in financial year 2017-18 compared with 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	183450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>DFID’s bilateral spending on human development remained the same between 2016/17 and 2017/18 at £1.9bn. Bilateral spending on economic development rose from £1.7bn in 2016/17 to £1.9bn in 2017/18. The data are available on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) website.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/10/2018 15:04:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

994220

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment
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 Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on UK support for the proposed ILO convention on ending violence and harassment in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	183318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has corresponded with the Minister of State for Employment on the proposed Convention on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work. They have agreed that officials and legal advisers at the Government Equalities Office and the Department for International Development will work in close partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions to help deliver a successful outcome for the UK on this important issue.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 31/10/2018 17:46:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma