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1247996

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date	02/11/2020
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	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is retaining the Department for International Development's commitment to maintaining poverty reduction as the primary objective of UK spending.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL9841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government will prioritise the bottom billion, the very poorest around the world, as part of our core mission. This is in our national interest and it will project the UK as a force for good in the world. For example, during the coronavirus pandemic, the UK has provided £15 million to UNICEF to protect vulnerable children, and a further £5 million to the Education Cannot Wait fund, supporting emergency education in conflict countries. Furthermore, the UK has allocated £119 million of aid to provide relief to over 6 million people and help prevent famine in countries hit by conflict and COVID-19.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 12/11/2020 14:36:30 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1247997

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
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	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will continue to target UK aid to the poorest countries and people.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL9842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>Reducing poverty will be at the beating heart of the FCDO. The Foreign Secretary has appointed Nick Dyer as the first ever envoy on famine prevention and humanitarian affairs, and we have allocated a new £119 million package to look at the threat of the coronavirus and of famine more generally across the bottom billion.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 12/11/2020 14:36:47 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1237911

registered interest
date	25/09/2020
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	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 91694, what criteria his Department used to determine the bottom billion poorest people.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	95723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>There is no internationally recognised definition of the &quot;bottom billion&quot; in the way that there are for other poverty measures, such as the World Bank's International Poverty Line which considers all people living on under $1.90 a day. The term was originally coined by Professor Sir Paul Collier who defined it as the countries least able to escape poverty, but it is also sometimes defined as the world's billion poorest citizens. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) analysis suggests that over time, these definitions converge. The FCDO takes into account a wide variety of factors when considering whom are the most vulnerable countries and individuals.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 05/10/2020 16:28:52 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1227117

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development on the world's poorest people.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
uin	HL7088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2020 answer text <p>Spending 0.7 per cent of our national income on aid is enshrined in law and we will continue to be guided by our responsibilities under the International Development Act, including a commitment to poverty reduction.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 03/08/2020 12:28:07 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie