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Written Question
Burma
Tuesday 8th July 2014

Asked by: David Burrowes (Conservative - Enfield, Southgate)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of reports of a food crisis in Chin State, Burma; and what food support her Department is providing in that region.

Answered by Alan Duncan

DFID has contributed to a food security programme in Chin State through the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund which is helping increase agricultural production through activities such as better quality seeds, and also helping farmers get their produce to markets.

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Thursday 10th April 2014

Asked by: David Burrowes (Conservative - Enfield, Southgate)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy that UK public funds should not be used for the purposes of campaigning for more liberal abortion laws in another country.

Answered by Baroness Featherstone

In many countries abortion may be permitted only on limited or highly restricted grounds. In these circumstances, we can consider support to increase awareness among policy-makers, legislators, national health authorities and health personnel of the circumstances under which abortion is allowed. We can also work to highlight the consequences arising from the complications of unsafe abortion, such as the burden of maternal ill-health and high health service costs.

In addition we can also consider support to locally-led efforts to enable legal and policy reform in circumstances where the existing law and policy are contributing to high maternal mortality and morbidity; and to regional or international initiatives that are working to prevent unsafe abortion.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Jul 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q8. Enfield has had the early advantage of a welfare cap for the past three months. With jobseeker’s allowance claims in Enfield falling at twice the rate of claims in the rest of the country and with youth unemployment in Enfield at the lowest level since early 2009, will the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jul 2012
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"Despite the signs of hope, I am sure that the Secretary of State will share my concern about the recent reports of human rights abuses in Kachin state—Christians being persecuted, women being gang raped and internally displaced persons camps becoming pools of prey for human trafficking. Can he assure me …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 13 Jul 2011
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"Q9. Can I raise with the Prime Minister a different case of hacking—the computer hacker Gary McKinnon? While I recognise that the Home Secretary has a legal process to follow, does the Prime Minister share the concern for my constituent’s nine-year nightmare? He feels that his life is literally hanging …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2011
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"7. What objectives he has set for the outcomes for his Department’s policies of the World Bank spring meetings...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2011
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"I thank the Minister for that reply. The president of the World Bank has said:

“If you think about almost any poverty and development issue, you will find water at the center of it.”

Last week, I, together with the Secretary of State and constituents, joined Tearfund and Water Aid’s …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Mar 2011
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"Q6. My constituent Geoff Jacobs is in Parliament for The Prostate Cancer Charity’s action day to remind us that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. With only three out of 10 men being aware of the prostate-specific antigen blood test, and with 10,000 men each year dying …..."
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