Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support countries affected by mpox with access to vaccines.
Answered by Anneliese Dodds - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK is second largest donor to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, providing £1.65 billion over 2021-2025. We are working closely with Gavi to enable access to mpox vaccines for the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African countries at risk. The UK have committed £160 million to international partner, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). CEPI and Bavarian Nordic recently announced a clinical trial launching in late 2024 to assess vaccine effectiveness in children in Africa. Lord Collins has announced the additional £3.1 million funding to UNICEF for cholera and mpox response. This will reach 4.4 million people in affected communities.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take diplomatic steps to make experts available to support the collection, documentation and analysis of evidence of potential war crimes against children in Ukraine.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The UK has allocated up to £2.5 million this year to support Ukraine's domestic investigations and prosecution of international crimes, including sexual violence and crimes against children. In Ukraine, we are providing personnel from the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Team of Experts to support capacity building amongst prosecutors and the police as well as support to victims, including women and children.
The £1 million additional contribution that the UK has provided to the International Criminal Court will enhance capacity on investigations into crimes of sexual and gender-based violence and crimes against children, led by the Prosecutors' special adviser on crimes against and affecting children.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that child victims are considered in efforts to bring perpetrators of alleged war crimes in Ukraine to justice.
Answered by Leo Docherty
The announcements made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 17 represent an important step for accountability and demonstrate that the international justice system is working. The UK wants to see those responsible for the atrocities that have been committed in Ukraine, including those against children, held to account. We are supporting the ICC and Ukrainian Prosecutor General in their independent investigations into allegations of war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the total Official Development Assistance spend was in (a) each year since 2018-19 and (b) 2022-23 to date.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is measured on a calendar year basis. Provisional ODA figures are published annually in spring, with final figures in autumn. Final data for 2021 will be published on 23 November 2022.
Final UK ODA spend from 2018-2020 is available in Table A1 of Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021091/Table-A1.ods
Provisional UK ODA spend for 2021 is available in Table 1 of Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2021:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1068246/prov-SID-21-Table1.ods
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the Official Development Assistance spend was, by department, in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is measured on a calendar year basis. Provisional ODA figures are published annually in spring, with final figures in autumn. Final data for 2021 will be published on 23 November 2022.
Final UK ODA spend by Government Department from 2017-2020 (the most recent five-year period for which data is available) is in Table A3 of Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021093/Table-A3.ods
The provisional total for UK ODA spend by Government Department in 2021 is available in Table 3 of Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2021:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1068460/prov-SID-21-Table3a.ods
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance (a) has been spent in 2022-23 to date and (b) is planned expenditure for the remainder of 2022-23, by Department.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Due to the UK's significant support to the people seeking sanctuary in the UK from conflict in Ukraine and Afghanistan, the FCDO was not able to publish forward programme allocations in our Annual Report as the original allocations would not be accurate. We remain committed to transparency and will provide updates to Parliament on spending plans in due course.
A final estimate of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA), the ODA:Gross National Income (GNI) ratio and more detailed breakdowns of UK ODA is published annually in Statistics on International Development publications (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development).
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which countries received Official Development Assistance in (a) each of the last four financial years and (b) the current financial year to date.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is measured on a calendar year basis.
UK bilateral ODA spend by country is available for 2017-2020 in Table A4a, Table A4b, Table A4c, Table A4d and Table A4e of Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020. The latest data available is for 2020, with data for 2021 due to be published on 23 November 2022.
The UK also provides core funding to multilateral organisations, which will benefit developing countries. A breakdown for 2016 to 2020 of the estimated amount of UK ODA funding to the core budgets of multilateral organisations, which was then spent in developing countries can be found in Table A10 of Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020.
Table A4a (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021094/Table-A4a.ods),
Table A4b (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021095/Table-A4b.ods),
Table A4c (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021097/Table-A4c.ods),
Table A4d (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021098/Table-A4d.ods)
Table A4e (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021099/Table-A4e.ods)
Table A10 (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1081373/Table_A10a.ods)
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's spending was on Overseas Development Aid in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) the first 10 months of 2015-16; and what the recipient countries of that aid were.
Answered by David Lidington
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Official Development Assistance spending was:
in financial year (FT) 2013-14 - £321 million;
in FT 2014-15 - £344 million;
and in the first 10 months of FY 2015-16 - £260 million
We have provided ODA funds to all countries on the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list except for Central African Republic, Djibouti, Sao Tome and Principe, Micronesia, Tokelau, Gabon, Niue, Palau, Wallis and Futuna. The DAC list can be found here: http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/documentupload/DAC%20List%20of%20ODA%20Recipients%202014%20final.pdf.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the EU, Africa and the Middle East on diplomatic steps to tackle the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.
Answered by David Lidington
Ministers discuss the current migration crisis with EU counterparts and those from other affected regions on a regular basis. Last night, The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) met with African and EU representatives as part of a British Chairmanship of the Khartoum Process.The UK is playing a leading role in taking forward joint efforts.
For example, countering people smuggling will be a priority for the UK in its engagement with a new Libyan Government resulting from the UN-led process.The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron)announced in Valletta £200 million of new UK money for projects in Africa to address the root causes of migration. 31 European nations and 36 African nations attended the Valletta Summit on Migration earlier this month.