Written Question

British Overseas Territories and Caribbean: Digital Technology

Wednesday 20th March 2024

Asked by: Damian Collins (Conservative - Folkestone and Hythe)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assistance has been provided for the development of digital infrastructure in (a) the British Overseas Territories and (b) Caribbean Commonwealth countries since 2014.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Whilst digital infrastructure is a mostly devolved matter, the UK provides significant support to the four Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligible Territories. The FCDO-funded capital investment programme in Montserrat recently delivered a sub-sea fibre cable and in St Helena we are supporting improvements in the local telecommunications infrastructure.

The UK has not provided support for digital infrastructure in the Caribbean through our bilateral ODA. However, we continue to support the development of digital infrastructure through our shareholding in multilateral agencies including the World Bank, Inter-American and Caribbean Development Banks.

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Oct. 24 2023

Source Page: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands
Document: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands (webpage)

Found: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands

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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Strategic Command

Oct. 24 2023

Source Page: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands
Document: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands (webpage)

Found: New way home for St Helenians in Falkland Islands

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Select Committee

Retired

TTC0038 - The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution

Written Evidence Oct. 17 2023

Inquiry: The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Procedure Committee

Found: The (expected) lack of responses from St Helena should therefore not be taken as a lack of interest

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Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) St Helena hospice in my constituency is no different, and since its opening on 20 May 1985 it has supported - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Correspondence from Dame Meg Hillier, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts to Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, re Follow up to evidence session on 23 November 2023, dated 18 December 2023

Correspondence Dec. 18 2023

Committee: Public Accounts Committee

Found: Helena that are being financed by the FCDO: St. Helena’s prison and fuel facility. The St.

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Written Question

Darwin Initiative: Antarctic

Friday 8th March 2024

Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in Antartica since 2019.

Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 22 environmental projects of benefit to the Falkland Islands. These are listed in the table below.

Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.

Project reference	Project title	UK Overseas Territories involved
DPLUS146	Red Listing can protect OT marine biodiversity	British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
DPLUS110	Recognise, protect, restore: driving sound stewardship of Falklands peat wetlands	Falkland Islands
DPLUS115	Unlocking Falkland Islands Marine Management: Key Biodiversity Areas for seabirds	Falkland Islands
DPLUS116	Falklands wetlands and aquatic habitats: baselines for monitoring future change	Falkland Islands
DPLUS126	Advancing Falklands and region-scale management of globally important whale populations	Falkland Islands
DPLUS139	Improving Falklands marine management effectiveness for marine higher predators	Falkland Islands
DPLUS148	Climate change resilience in Falkland Islands fisheries and marine ecosystems	Falkland Islands
DPLUS167	Pathogens as a threat to seabirds in the Falkland Islands	Falkland Islands
DPLUS168	Understanding increased FI seal bycatch to inform bycatch Action Plan	Falkland Islands
DPLUS169	New Island: completing preparatory steps for restoration against invasive mammals	Falkland Islands
DPLUS182	Habitat restoration and species re-introductions on four Falklands island reserves	Falkland Islands
DPL00047	Increasing environmental monitoring capacity on FI: a Thermal Imaging UAV	Falkland Islands
DPL00058	Fire Contingency Planning for Offshore Islands	Falkland Islands
CV19RR02	Establishing wildlife health and disease monitoring in the Falkland Islands	Falkland Islands
DPL00002	Restoring native tussac grassland habitat	Falkland Islands
DPL00006	Restoring peat soils and tussac grass habitat in the Falklands	Falkland Islands
DPL00020	Data driven solutions to land management and climate change adaptation	Falkland Islands
DPL00025	Building farm biodiversity planning and monitoring capacity for sustainable management	Falkland Islands
DPLUS092	Seabird sentinels: mapping potential bycatch risk using bird-borne radar	Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
DPLUS094	Developing Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) tools for Turks and Caicos	Falkland Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands
DPLUS175	Enhancing monitoring and prevention of invasive non-native species across UKOTs	Gibraltar, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bermuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands
DPLUS174	A cross-UKOT camera network to enhance marine predator conservation	Montserrat, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

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Written Question

British Overseas Territories: Internet and Telecommunications

Thursday 11th January 2024

Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps he is taking to help improve (a) internet and (b) communications connectivity in the Overseas Territories.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

This UK Government is committed to supporting the UK Overseas Territories as valued members of the British Family. Whilst telecommunications are mostly devolved matters which are the responsibility of the local governments in the Territories the UK provides significant support to the four Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligible Territories. The FCDO funded capital investment programme in Montserrat recently delivered a sub-sea fibre cable and in St Helena we are supporting improvements in the local telecommunications infrastructure. The FCDO also supports the provision of internet to Pitcairn Island and Tristan da Cunha.

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Deposited Papers
Department for Work and Pensions

Oct. 22 2008

Source Page: Table showing NINo registrations to adult overseas national for the years 2004 to 2007, broken down by nationality and year of registration. 8 p.
Document: DEP2008-2442.xls (Excel)

Found: 0.020.040.04Rwanda0.220.140.10.16Senegal0.070.080.090.19Seychelles0.150.140.090.11Sierra Leone0.710.570.580.79Somalia4.04.172.993.09South Africa19.1723.6917.6314.32St Helena

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