Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 24173 between 2015-16 and 2019-20, to which other government departments and cross-government funds her Department plans to transfer, the amounts referred to in table 2.7 on page 85 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
As set out in DFID’s settlement letter from HM Treasury, over the Spending Review period, DFID plans to transfer the amounts referred to in table 2.7 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 to the following government departments and cross-government funds:
Conflict, Stability & Security Fund
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Department for Culture, Media & Sport
Department of Energy & Climate Change
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Department of Health
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
Home Office
Office for National Statistics
Prosperity Fund
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, on how many occasions her Department has been notified by external consultants or other third parties of breaches by employees or subcontractors of those consultants of document retention or security policies relating to confidential or secure materials in each of the last two years.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID is not aware of any notifications from external consultants, or other third parties, of breaches to its Information Security Management Controls in the past two years.
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure the economic empowerment of women in the developing world.
Answered by Justine Greening
The economic empowerment of women is a top priority for my Department. In September 2015 at the UN General Assembly and Post-2015 Summit, the UK and UNWomen hosted the event Transforming Economies: Empowering Women and Girls. The Call to Action launched at this event secured over 150 commitments to action from governments, development institutions, civil society and the private sector. These will all help deliver the Global Goal targets for women’s economic empowerment.
We support a wide range of programmes to increase women’s opportunities for employment, ownership and control over economic assets and ability to start and run businesses. Since 2011, DFID have helped 2.5m women to improve their land and property rights and 35m women to access financial services.
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to improve the resilience of healthcare provision in West Africa.
Answered by Grant Shapps
In countries affected by the Ebola virus, DFID is committed to building resilient health systems and to ensuring we learn the lessons from the crisis.
The World Health Organisation declared Sierra Leone ‘Ebola free’ on 7 November 2015. The UK’s objective is to maintain the vigilance necessary to prevent any future outbreaks from growing into epidemics. The UK has announced a two-year £240 million package of support to Sierra Leone’s long term recovery, which includes boosting capability to respond to future Ebola outbreaks, and improving basic services including, vitally, healthcare. DFID will also support Liberia’s Health Pooled fund with £6 million to help ensure that health system is resilient to future shocks.
Beyond Sierra Leone and Liberia, DFID is providing £17 million through its Regional Preparedness Programme, which aims to prevent the transmission and spread of the Ebola in at-risk countries in West Africa; and to strengthen national capacities to accelerate preparedness measures and improve readiness to detect and act to contain disease outbreaks.
In doing this, as well as through wider health programmes across West Africa, we are helping countries to have better health systems for normal times – as well as in case of emergency.
Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much Ministry of Defence expenditure her Department considered to be spending on international development in each year from 2006 to 2014.
Answered by Grant Shapps
The Ministry of Defence did not spend any Official Development Assistance during the years 2006-2010. Figures for 2011-2014 are shown in the table below.
MoD Spend on ODA (£m) | |||
2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
5 | 5 | 3 | 3* |
*2014 data is provisional. Final figures for 2014 will be published on the DFID website on Thursday 3rd December 2015.