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1179732

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date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Private Infrastructure Development Group: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by non-renewable energy projects financed by the Private Infrastructure Development Group.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	19805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Historically Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has not measured the Green House Gases emissions associated with its investments.</p><p>However, it has now developed a methodology to measure the Green House Gases emissions associated with its investment portfolio and conducted an assessment of its portfolio beginning with the highest emitting sector, which is energy.</p><p>It will disclose the Green House Gases footprint associated with its investment portfolio going forwards as part of its commitment to Taskforce for Climate Related Financial Disclosures reporting from this year onwards (with the first disclosure in 2021).</p><p>Data on all PIDG investment commitments are available online via its Results Monitoring Database and its annual reports (<a href="https://www.pidg.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pidg.org/</a>). DFID also publishes data relating to its funding to PIDG via DevTracker.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 02/03/2020 18:01:53 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1179747

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to ensure that Official Development Assistance is not used for development that causes climate change.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	19899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government published the Green Finance Strategy in July 2019, which included our commitment to align all UK Official Development Assistance with the Paris Agreement. This reflected our commitment to put climate change at the heart of our development programmes. Our commitment to doubling our international climate finance to £11.6 billion over the years 21/22 to 25/26 means that we will be investing more UK aid in low carbon development such as clean energy, and assisting poorer countries to anticipate and manage the unavoidable impacts of climate change.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 03/03/2020 18:12:42 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1179757

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Plastics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps are being taken by her Department to reduce the amount of single use plastics in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	19844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>DFID is funding a number of interventions to tackle plastic waste and single use plastics in developing countries.</p><p>To support the Commonwealth Clean Ocean Alliance launched in London in April 2018, DFID is providing expertise to developing countries that signed up to meet the ambitions of the Alliance. This includes working towards eliminating single use plastics.</p><p>In addition, DFID is funding projects to increase recycling of plastic and improve waste management in Uganda, Ghana and Vanuatu. DFID is also funding innovative research and supports UK charities working on plastic recycling and waste management though the Small Charities Challenge Fund and UK Aid Match. This includes funding work through Tearfund and Waste Aid, in Haiti, Pakistan, Cameroon, The Gambia and Kenya which is focused on reducing waste and pollution.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 04/03/2020 17:48:14 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1179786

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Syria: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps she has taken to provide humanitarian support to displaced people in Syria.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	19932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>We are gravely concerned about escalating regime and Russian military action and its humanitarian impact in North West Syria, where more than 948,000 people have been displaced since 1 December, of which 80% are women and children. Many of these people have been displaced multiple times and many more are at risk of imminent further displacement.</p><p>In response to increased needs, this financial year DFID has allocated £118 million to organisations delivering aid cross border primarily into North West Syria. This has helped to provide hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people with food, clean water, shelter, and healthcare including psychosocial support. We have provided funding to response partners including the UN to preposition essential supplies to support innocent families and civilians displaced by conflict, and are supporting all our partners to respond to this humanitarian crisis.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 02/03/2020 17:55:04 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1179810

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of Official Development Assistance has been allocated to (a) healthcare, (b) physical health and (c) mental health in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	19950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Details of the UK’s Official Development Assistance spend on health are published in Statistics on International Development. Our reporting is based on internationally agreed Organisation for Co-operation and Development - Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) codes, as part of our commitment to transparent reporting of development assistance in a way that permits international comparisons. We do not currently collect the information disaggregated between physical and mental health as these are not categories within the OECD-DAC codes.</p><p>We are focused on ending the preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children. We work to strengthen countries’ health systems, including for both physical and mental health, towards achieving Universal Health Coverage by 2030, which will enable us to lead the way in helping countries to tackle diseases such as malaria and Ebola.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 02/03/2020 18:14:38 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1179859

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Sudan: South Sudan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to guarantee humanitarian access to the civilian population in Abyei.
tabling member printed	Baroness Cox
uin	HL1728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The UK is concerned by the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sudan and, as one of the largest humanitarian donors in the country, we are committed to assisting those in need. We welcome the Government of Sudan’s commitment to unfettered humanitarian access across the country, however we note that full humanitarian access has yet to be delivered. The UK has continued to call on PM Hamdok and the Government of Sudan to ensure this commitment is achieved. HMA and DFID officials in Khartoum have continued to engage with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on how we can coordinate and respond effectively to the humanitarian needs across all of Sudan, including in the Abyei region. Furthermore, senior UK officials in Juba continue to urge all parties to abide by the commitments they have made to ensure full, safe, unhindered humanitarian access throughout South Sudan.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 11/03/2020 17:05:41 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3364 label Biography information for Baroness Cox

1180019

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Schools
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 has made with the Georg Eckert Institute on the review of the textbooks included in the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
uin	19999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Following the UK’s calls for international action, an EU sponsored independent review of Palestinian textbooks is currently underway. The EU has contracted the Georg Eckert Institute, a specialist textbook analysis centre, to lead this review.</p><p>To ensure the review could begin immediately on the signing of the contract, the UK commissioned the Georg Eckert Institute to produce an inception report to establish its methodology in advance.</p><p>We understand from the EU that an interim report covering grade 8 – 10 books will be completed in Spring 2020, with the full report covering all the books due later in the year. DFID is part of the steering committee for this review, and we will continue to engage with the EU to press for this timetable to be met.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 02/03/2020 17:55:39 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1180067

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Ageing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she has made an assessment of the potential effect on the effectiveness of her Department of removing ageing as a specific policy area with Ministerial responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	20015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>My Department recognises that older people experience a range of complex barriers and face multiple exclusions in developing countries across the globe.</p><p>Baroness Sugg has direct responsibility for ageing as part of her portfolio on inclusive societies.</p><p>Ageing is an important factor in DFID’s efforts to tackle extreme poverty, ensure inclusion and in our approach to ‘leave no-one behind’. This is reflected in our departmental strategy papers. Both the Disability Inclusion Strategy and the Strategic Vision for Gender Equality take a life-course approach, ensuring the delivery of transformative change for people all ages.</p><p>We are also supporting governments to make vital social protection systems more inclusive of older people. In Uganda, DFID continues to build on its partnership with the Government of Uganda to deliver a Senior Citizen Grant. The grant currently supports over 168,000 older people with a cash transfer to help meet their nutritional and healthcare needs.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/02/2020 17:37:59 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1180069

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Older People
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 is taking to support the needs of older people.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	20017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government recognises that older people experience a range of complex barriers in developing countries around the globe.</p><p>DFID’s vision is a world where all people, in all stages of their lives, are engaged, empowered and able to exercise their rights. Ageing is an important factor in our efforts to tackle extreme poverty, ensure inclusion and in our approach to ‘leave no-one behind’. For example, DFID’s Disability Inclusion Strategy and Strategic Vision for Gender Equality take a life-course approach, ensuring the delivery of transformative change for people all ages.</p><p>We are also supporting governments to make vital social protection systems more inclusive of older people. In Uganda, DFID continues to build on its partnership with the Government of Uganda to deliver a Senior Citizen Grant. The grant currently supports over 168,000 older people with a cash transfer to help meet their nutritional and healthcare needs.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 27/02/2020 17:43:57 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1180092

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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: Ageing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons she removed ageing as a Ministerial responsibility within her Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	20036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department recognises that older people experience a range of complex barriers and face multiple exclusions in developing countries across the globe.</p><p>Baroness Sugg has direct responsibility for ageing as part of her portfolio on inclusive societies.</p><p>Ageing is an important factor in DFID’s efforts to tackle extreme poverty, ensure inclusion and in our approach to ‘leave no-one behind’. This is reflected in our departmental strategy papers. Both the Disability Inclusion Strategy and the Strategic Vision for Gender Equality take a life-course approach, ensuring the delivery of transformative change for people all ages.</p><p>We are also supporting governments to make vital social protection systems more inclusive of older people. In Uganda, DFID continues to build on its partnership with the Government of Uganda to deliver a Senior Citizen Grant. The grant currently supports over 168,000 older people with a cash transfer to help meet their nutritional and healthcare needs.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 16/03/2020 18:29:11 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill