Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, with reference to the policy paper entitled UK–St Helena development partnership summary, published in July 2023, whether he has taken recent steps to support tourism in St Helena.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK Government works closely with St Helena's leadership to support tourism development and funded the construction of St Helena Airport to improve access to the Island. The UK Government provides significant financial aid to St Helena (up to £34.06 million in 2024/25). This includes support for the delivery of public services, the airport and £500,000 of ringfenced funding for tourism development, with the same level of tourism support also provided in 2023/24. In addition, up to £30 million is being provided between 2019-28 for long-term capital infrastructure development.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Housing Association • Hawthorn Housing Co -operative Ltd • Hebr idean Housing Partnership Ltd • Helena
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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
Asked by: Fabian Hamilton (Labour - Leeds North East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had discussions with the St Helena Government on steps to return the remains of formerly enslaved people from St Helena to their ancestral homes.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Approximately 8000 former slaves died after being taken to St Helena by the Royal Navy's West African Squadron trying to halt the slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century; their ancestral homes are not known. 325 Skeletons were unearthed during the construction of St Helena Airport and the UK Government provided support for their reburial on 21 August 2022. St Helena Government plans to create a memorial and interpretation centre to honour those who died.
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha: Knowledge Base profileFound: St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha: Knowledge Base profile
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: Torus Housing Association's severe maladministration findings by the Housing OmbudsmanFound: Communities Minister for Intergovernmental Relations Steve Coffey CEO Torus Housing Association Helena
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: Steel public procurement 2024Found: TBC TBC Q3 23-24 Depends on variable factors Free Schools Education School Department of Education Helena
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: Dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2024 to 2025Found: Helens 142161 3423310 St Mary & St Thomas' CofE Primary School Academy converter St.
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.
Laid - 20 Mar 2024 In Force 10 Apr 2024
This Order revokes and replaces the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2926) as amended by the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/236).
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