May. 13 2024
Source Page: Botswana: Knowledge Base profileFound: Botswana: Knowledge Base profile
May. 22 2024
Source Page: Change of British High Commissioner to Botswana: Giles EnticknapFound: Change of British High Commissioner to Botswana: Giles Enticknap
Asked by: Bill Wiggin (Conservative - North Herefordshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has received recent representations from his counterpart in Botswana on the potential impact of his Department's legislative proposals on trophy hunting on that country.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Secretary of State has not received any representations from his international counterparts on the potential impact of the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Private Members’ Bill introduced by the Rt. Hon. Member for Warley.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many (a) FCO, (b) DFID and (c) FCDO personnel were posted in Botswana in each financial year since 2009-10.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
FCO, DFID and FCDO have had fewer than ten staff posted in either Botswana, Cameroon or Chad respectively, at the end of each financial year since 2013-14. Data is not held for financial years prior to 2013-14.
Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) I have not met the current President of Botswana, but I have met the previous one, President Khama, on - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) It is worth remembering that Botswana had 50,000 elephants; it now has 130,000 elephants. - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) The paper quoted from a survey of 4,000 people in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) After a hunting ban in 2014 in Botswana one village lost the provision of 154 tonnes of meat, so less - Speech Link
Found: 10, at end insert— “(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply where a hunting trophy is obtained in Botswana
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many (a) FCO, (b) DFID and (c) FCDO personnel were posted in Chad in each financial year since 2009-10.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
FCO, DFID and FCDO have had fewer than ten staff posted in either Botswana, Cameroon or Chad respectively, at the end of each financial year since 2013-14. Data is not held for financial years prior to 2013-14.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many (a) FCO, (b) DFID and (c) FCDO personnel were posted in Cameroon in each financial year since 2009-10.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
FCO, DFID and FCDO have had fewer than ten staff posted in either Botswana, Cameroon or Chad respectively, at the end of each financial year since 2013-14. Data is not held for financial years prior to 2013-14.
Jan. 16 2024
Source Page: Table showing median gross hourly earnings of earnings of employees by nationality, January to December 2019, Annual Population Survey. 12p.Found: Bangladesh9.950000000000001Armenia*Barbados*Belgium21.71Bermuda*Bhutan*Bolivia*Bosnia And Herzegovina*Botswana
Nov. 24 2023
Source Page: Russia blocks discussions at Kimberley Process PlenaryFound: supporting the Kimberley Process in important initiatives such as establishing a Permanent Secretariat in Botswana