Asked by: Darren Jones (Labour - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment he has made of the effect of climate change on the work of his Department; and what steps he is taking in response to that effect.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
My department has long recognised that climate change puts development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals at risk. We contribute to the development of science and analysis on climate change to help improve global understanding of the challenge, as well as building the evidence of effective approaches to tackle it. Since 2011, our International Climate Finance has supported 57 million people to cope with the effects of climate change and given 26 million people improved access to clean energy.
It is clear that more global action is urgently needed to avoid dangerous climate change and environmental degradation. The Government is working hard to ensure the international climate negotiations in Glasgow in November are a success. Last year, the Prime Minister committed to double our International Climate Finance to at least £11.6 billion from 2021/22 to 2025/26, and we have also committed to align all UK aid with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. This means that we will be investing more in helping countries to build their capability to manage the impact of climate change already locked in and to support lower carbon development, with an increasing focus on nature-based solutions such as investing in sustainable forestry.
Asked by: Darren Jones (Labour - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much the UK spends in Official Development Assistance in Uganda; and to what projects that funding is allocated.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Please see the below table providing details of bilateral ODA spend in Uganda in each of the last three financial years.
Financial Year | DFID Funding to Uganda (£) |
2016 – 2017 | 110,056,327 |
2017 – 2018 | 124,803,146 |
2018 - 2019 | 102,509,635 |
Total | 337,369,108 |
Figure 1: table providing details of DFID’s funding in Uganda in each of the last three financial years
Centrally managed programmes and multilateral spending totalled a further c. £100m annually.
A full list of the programmes the Department for International Development (DFID) has supported over the last three years is also published on https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/.
Asked by: Darren Jones (Labour - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to support the charity Theirworld's #RewritingTheCode campaign on attitudes and behaviours that prevent girls and women from succeeding and leading.
Answered by Alistair Burt
We welcome any action that supports girls and women to succeed and lead and therefore applaud TheirWorld's campaign. DFID is committed to challenging and changing the negative attitudes and discriminatory practices that hold women and girls back throughout their lives. UKaid funded programmes have secured pledges from more than 8 million people to abandon female genital mutilation and have reached over 750,000 girls at risk of child marriage. UKaid also supports women and girls to achieve their full potential through education, supporting more than 5.3 million girls in school and helping over 36 million women access financial services.