Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to provide support for the education of girls and young women in conflict-affected areas of Northern Nigeria.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID has a number of large education programmes across northern Nigeria, the risks to which are being actively managed to ensure that we can still get 800,000 more children into better quality primary schools by 2015.
The UK has also committed £1 million to the Nigerian Government’s “Safe Schools Initiative” to help protect children at school in north east Nigeria and provide schooling to children displaced by the violence.
Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the Government has to provide increased support to people displaced as a result of the violence by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The UK has provided £1 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver food, safe water, clothes, shelter material and other basic necessities to those people displaced following attacks by Boko Haram.
A further £1 million of UK funding is committed to the Nigerian Government’s “Safe Schools Initiative” to help protect children at school in North East Nigeria and provide schooling to children displaced by the violence. The UK has also contributed £1.7 million to the UN’s and EU’s relief efforts.
Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her health priorities are in discussions on the post-2015 development framework.
Answered by Justine Greening
The UK objective for post-2015 is to agree a simple, inspiring, measurable set of goals centred on eradicating extreme poverty that should finish the job that the millennium development goals started. The goal should be outcome focused, measuring reductions in preventable death and disease and giving women and girls sexual and reproductive health rights.