Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many contractors working for her Department have had their employment status assessed in relation to the new IR35 rules on off-payroll working; and how many of those staff are subject to those rules.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The Department for International Development does not hold this data, and the cost of extraction would be too high.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of organisations that hold contracts with his Department pay the National Living Wage.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
DFID does not have any employees who are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. Nor does DFID have any workers in agencies that report to DFID who are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
DFID encourages outsource partners to pay the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation. None of DFID’s contracted workers are paid less than the National Living Wage.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Any such payments are published in DFID’s audited annual accounts, which can be found on gov.uk.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last three years.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The effectiveness of DFID programmes is measured against expected results, and the value for money provided. Individual programme performance is assessed annually and can be viewed on DFID’s development tracker: https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/countries/CD/.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which organisations her Department allocates funding to for programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The Department for International Development’s bilateral programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) delivers UKaid to the Congolese people through a range of organisations (private sector, non-governmental and multilateral). These are:
1. Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
2. Adam Smith International (ASI)
3. Association de Santé Familiale (ASF)
4. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
5. Cambridge Education (CE)
6. Chemonics / Global Development Firm
7. Concern International
8. Counterpart International
9. Fondation Hirondelle
10. IMA World Health
11. International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)
12. Mercy Corps
13. National Democratic Institute (NDI)
14. Observatoire de la Dépense Publique (ODEP)
15. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
16. Oxford Policy Management (OPM)
17. Palladium Group
18. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
19. Province of the Anglican Church of Congo
20. Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
21. The Carter Center
22. Tulane Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Health
23. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
24. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
26. United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UN-JHRO)
27. Westminster Foundation for Democracy
29. World Food Programme (WFP)
30. World Bank
31. Women and Young Girl International (WYG International)
In addition, core contributions to multilateral and centrally managed programmes spend money in DRC.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which three programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo receive the largest amount of funding from her Department.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The three largest current programmes supported by the Department for International Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo are:
Humanitarian Innovation, Response and Reform programme reaching over 3 million people;
Access to Health Care reaching 9 million people;
Increasing sustainable access to water sanitation and hygiene reaching 3.75 million people.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps has she taken to assess the value for money of aid spending in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
All DFID programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are subject to standard Value-for-Money (VfM) reviews throughout the programme cycle. This includes a yearly assessment as part of our mandatory annual review process, through which we monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and achievements of our programmes. Additional periodic VfM assessments are also made on a case-by-case basis.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of days of sick leave taken by staff in her Department for mental health reasons in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The table below confirms the number of days recorded as sickness absence in DFID relating to mental health from 2014 to 2017.
Year | Days Lost |
2014 | 1639 |
2015 | 1676 |
2016 | 1744 |
2017 | 1963 |
Information prior to 2014 would only be available at disproportionate cost.
DFID is committed to reducing sickness absence and we have policies in place to ensure that employees have the right care and support to help prevent mental illness and support employees who are affected, for example our Employee Assistance Programme.
DFID have had awareness campaigns, sharing personal stories and having an SCS champion for health and disability, which has helped change the culture and mind-sets across the department.
Civil Service sickness absence data includes absence relating to mental health disorders, but not specifically to stress.
Mental health disorders include stress, but also a range of other disorders such as anxiety, depression and long term mental illness.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish a list of the mobile phone applications developed by her Department and its agencies in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of developing of each of those applications.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The Department for International Development has not developed any mobile phone applications in the last three years. There has therefore been no cost to the public purse.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many members of the House of Lords hold (a) paid and (b) unpaid roles within (i) her Department and (ii) her Department's agencies.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
Ministerial remuneration and pension details are published in the Remuneration and Staff Report section of DFID’s Annual Report and Accounts.