Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much support, and under what categories, her Department provided directly to British Overseas Territories in each of the last three years.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Information on DFID’s provisions to the British Overseas Territories is published in our Operational Plan: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-overseas-territories-department-operational-plan-2014.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May 2014 to Question 198148, how much of the £2,809,462 provided to the Pitcairn Islands was allocated to each of the categories listed in that Answer.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID provides funds to the Pitcairn Islands in the form of budget aid. In 2013/14 the breakdown of how this was allocated was:
Shipping service £1,330,000
Child safeguarding £500, 000
The remaining £980,000 was spent on maintaining the island’s basic services as well as the costs associated with the running of Pitcairn Islands Office (PIO) in Auckland, New Zealand.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 80W on the Pacific Islands, how much support and under what categories her Department gave directly to Pitcairn Island in 2013-14.
Answered by Alan Duncan
DFID holds a legal obligation to meet the reasonable needs of Pitcairn Island. In 2013/14 DFID provided a total of £2,809,462 to Pitcairn Island to ensure the maintenance of a range of basic public services (e.g. electricity, telecommunications), to ensure continued child safeguarding is in place for the remaining children on Pitcairn, and to support the shipping service that provides the only freight and passenger services to and from the island.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2014, Official Report, columns 568-9W, on Pacific Islands, to Question 196375, how much support and under what categories her Department gave directly to Pacific Island countries in 2013-14.
Answered by Alan Duncan
I refer the Hon. Member to the Oral answer given to her by the Secretary of State for International Development, my Rt. Hon Friend the member for Putney (Justine Greening) on 5 March 2014 (Official Report, column 871).
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to her Answer of 5 March 2014, Official Report, column 871, on Pacific Islands, how much support, and under what categories her Department gave indirectly to Pacific Island countries in 2013-14.
Answered by Alan Duncan
DFID may give aid indirectly to countries in the Pacific region if multilateral organisations in receipt of DFID core contributions give aid to countries there. It is not possible to directly track this funding to individual countries. To provide an indication of the destination of aid, the overall proportions of aid reported by the relevant multilateral agencies are used to impute a DFID contribution. The DFID imputed multilateral shares for the Pacific region in 2011/12 are set out in the table below. Figures for 2013/14 will not be available until autumn 2015.
Pacific Island Countries | £ (thousand) |
Cook Islands | 88 |
Fiji | 0 |
Kiribati | 3,537 |
Marshall Islands | 4 |
Micronesia, Fed. States | 10 |
Nauru | 69 |
Niue | 0 |
Palau | 1 |
Papua New Guinea | 0 |
Pitcairn Islands | 0 |
Samoa | 1,444 |
Solomon Islands | 570 |
Tokelau | 2 |
Tonga | 4,393 |
Tuvalu | 1,399 |
Vanuatu | 264 |
Wallis & Fortuna | 0 |
South Pacific Regional | 0 |
Oceania, regional | 275 |
Total Pacific | 12,055 |