Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which trades union groups have received (a) funding and (b) other support from her Department in each of the last five years.

DFID has funded the following trade union groups in the last five years:

• Ethical Trading Initiative (an alliance of almost 87 companies, trade unions and NGOs) in 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15.
• Unison in the years 2012/13 and 2013/14.