Asked by: Lord Moonie (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government by how much the Department for International Development has reimbursed the Ministry of Defence in respect of humanitarian assistance in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The table below contains detail of all MOD reimbursement resulting from DFID requested support to crisis in the past five years. The costs shown are marginal/additional costs in accordance with the agreed terms of the DFID – MOD memorandum of understanding and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) guidelines.
Year | Events | Cost |
2010 | Haiti Earthquake and Pakistan Floods | £1,234,936 |
2013 | Philippines - super typhoon Haiyan | £8,950,281 |
2014 | Iraq - air drops to Yazidis population on Mount Sinjar | £2,000,000 |
2014-15 | Sierra Leone - ebola response | £28,800,000 (to date) |
Asked by: Lord Moonie (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what reasons the government of Nepal gave for declining to use RAF Chinook helicopters deployed to Nepal for disaster relief.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The UK offered Chinook helicopters to help deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the most remote areas of Nepal, in response to a UN request on 25 April for help, issued on behalf of the Nepalese government.
In deciding not to accept the offer, the Government of Nepal cited technical reasons and referred to the existing helicopter capacity that was already in the country.
It was ultimately a decision for them to take on what equipment should be used during the relief effort.
Asked by: Lord Moonie (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the total cost to date of assistance to Sierra Leone to combat the Ebola outbreak; and how those costs have been allocated between departments.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The UK has committed £427m to combat Ebola in West Africa, £373m for the ongoing crisis response and £54m for early recovery activities including infection prevention control and WASH facilities. The Secretary of State recently announced a further £240m package of support for Sierra Leone at the UN Secretary General’s Conference in New York, however this will focus on long term recovery over the next 2 years.
DFID is leading the UK Government’s response to the crisis and retains the budget for response activities, reimbursing other government departments including the Ministry of Defence, the NHS and Public Health England for any costs incurred. DFID has so far disbursed over £275 million to combat the outbreak.