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Written Question
British Overseas Territories
Monday 2nd March 2015

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.


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Pitcairn Islands
Monday 12th January 2015

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.


Written Question
Doctors: Pensions
Monday 12th May 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 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.


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Tuesday 6th May 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 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).


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Monday 28th April 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 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


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2014
Burma

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Mar 2014
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Mar 2014
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Dec 2011
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