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date	20/07/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Bilateral Aid: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to increase bilateral funding in response to the covid-19 pandemic for (a) primary health and (b) girls’ education programmes.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	76720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2020 answer text <p>We have contributed up to £774 million of UK aid to the international effort to fight COVID-19. We are at the forefront of the global response to the pandemic.</p><p>The UK is flexing our funding and programming to support health systems to manage the direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic. We are maintaining our focus on the global Covid response, poverty reduction for the bottom billion and girls' education, plus climate change and delivering environmental outcomes. This includes working with partners to ensure essential health services, including primary health care, continue despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic. This is a key part of our pledge to end the preventable deaths of mothers, newborns and children.</p><p>Education, particularly girls' education, will remain a top priority in the new FCDO. Through our bilateral programmes and as the largest contributor to both the Global Partnership for Education and Education Cannot Wait, we are proud to be a leading donor in support of basic education in developing countries. We recently announced £5.3 million of new UK aid to support the salaries of more than 5,500 teachers in the world's poorest refugee-hosting countries to deliver vital education and child protection services to over 300,000 children. Our Girls' Education Challenge programme is adapting to continue providing at least 1.3 million girls with essential education and support throughout the pandemic, for example through distance learning programmes and support for girls' wellbeing and safety.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 04/09/2020 10:21:32 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1226286

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the different fee rate caps for national and international experts working on projects funded by her Department, what assessment she has made of the equity of the system of fee rate caps for international, regional and national consultants; and what plans she has to remove those rate caps for national experts paid less than international and regional consultants.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	76721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) fee rates benchmark well against those paid by other donors and development organisations and provide good value for money. This was recognised by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact in its first report on our procurement practices. The FCDO currently uses a fee rate database, which allows us to benchmark rates against organisations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, as well as compare rates with other international aid organisations. This enables us to pay the appropriate rate for the job, based on expertise, experience and market conditions. We do not specify fee rates based on whether experts are international, regional or national. The database also enables us to identify any fee rates above set parameters and ensure suppliers provide a robust justification for any higher rate. This practice does not equate to setting a fee rate cap since we recognise that there will be occasions on which a higher fee rate is justified for example in a more challenging environment, for a niche specialism, or for a particular individual with a world-class reputation or skills.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 08/09/2020 10:28:54 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1226287

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will publish a list of projects funded by her Department that have scored a (a) B and (b) C in their annual review in the last 18 months; and what steps her Department has taken to improve the performance of failing programmes.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	76722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2020 answer text <p>FCDO publishes annual reviews of its programmes to Devtracker and the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Each annual review contains the programme's score for that year, and all previous scores. There are no plans to publish a specific list of programmes that scored B or C.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 03/09/2020 11:45:10 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1226614

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Capital Punishment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations (a) he has and (b) officials of his Department have made to the Government of Bahrain on abolishing the death penalty in that country in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	76717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2020 answer text <p>The UK strongly opposes the death penalty in all countries and in all circumstances, as a matter of principle. We regularly raise our concerns about the use of the death penalty with the Bahraini authorities using a range of Ministerial and diplomatic channels. The Government of Bahrain is well aware of the UK's opposition to use of the death penalty.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 02/09/2020 16:01:30 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty