Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help improve the (a) transparency and (b) reporting of international climate finance.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Details of all programmes funded through UK International Climate Finance (ICF) are published on the development tracker website (Development Tracker (fcdo.gov.uk)), an ICF filter has been made available in order to support greater transparency. In addition, we publish an annual report setting out the results that we have achieved through our ICF (UK Climate Finance results 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)). We continue to work with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and other partners to improve the consistency and quality of global ICF reporting.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £11.6 billion of international climate finance his Department will distribute between the 2021-22 and 2025-26 financial years was distributed in the 2021-22 financial year.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The UK is delivering on our commitment to spend £11.6 billion International Climate Finance (ICF) between 2021/22 and 2025/26 including £3 billion on development solutions that protect and restore nature and balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation. In line with our international obligations our ICF spending is published through the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent data can be found here UK's Eighth National Communication and Fifth Biennial Report under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) the next report, which will cover ICF spent in 2021 and 2022 is due at the end of 2024.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £11.6 billion International Climate Finance commitment was distributed in financial year 2022-23.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The UK is delivering on our commitment to spend £11.6 billion International Climate Finance (ICF) between 2021/22 and 2025/26 including £3 billion on development solutions that protect and restore nature and balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation. In line with our international obligations our ICF spending is published through the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent data can be found here UK's Eighth National Communication and Fifth Biennial Report under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) the next report, which will cover ICF spent in 2021 and 2022 is due at the end of 2024.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department will provide for (a) mitigation, (b) adaptation and (c) other international climate finance in each of the next three financial years.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The UK is delivering on our commitment to spend £11.6 billion International Climate Finance (ICF) between 2021/22 and 2025/26 including £3 billion on development solutions that protect and restore nature and balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation. In line with our international obligations our ICF spending is published through the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent data can be found here UK's Eighth National Communication and Fifth Biennial Report under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) the next report, which will cover ICF spent in 2021 and 2022 is due at the end of 2024.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on spending £11.6 billion of international climate finance between the 2021-22 and 2025-26 financial years.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The UK is delivering on our commitment to spend £11.6 billion International Climate Finance (ICF) between 2021/22 and 2025/26 including £3 billion on development solutions that protect and restore nature and balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation. In line with our international obligations our ICF spending is published through the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The most recent data can be found here UK's Eighth National Communication and Fifth Biennial Report under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) the next report, which will cover ICF spent in 2021 and 2022 is due at the end of 2024.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government has received legal advice on amending the Equality Act 2010 to include care experience as a protected characteristic.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Opposition Chief Whip (Commons)
The Government does not believe that the creation of new protected characteristics is often the most effective means of achieving positive change and fairer treatment. We will however continue to keep the Equality Act 2010 under review and if there were ever to be a formal review of the legislation, this recommendation could be revisited as part of that.
In this context, we are unable to comment on whether or not legal advice has been received on the specific question of care experience.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of care-experienced people aged 18 to 25 claim Universal Credit.
Answered by Guy Opperman
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people aged 18 to 25 claim Universal Credit.
Answered by Guy Opperman
Statistics on the number of people in receipt of Universal Credit are published every month. The latest statistics are available by age, to December 2022, on Stat-Xplore.
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) prison population and (b) cost per prisoner was in 2022.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
The unit costs for 2021/22 are not yet finalised and will be published in due course. In the meantime, the link below contains information around the previous year’s unit costs. This shows that the average population across the year was 78,959 and the overall cost per prisoner was £48,409 per annum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-performance-data-2020-to-2021
Asked by: Chris Law (Scottish National Party - Dundee Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many care-experienced people were part of the prison population in 2022.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
This question cannot be answered without incurring disproportionate cost.