Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid was delivered by the aid agencies of other countries in (a) the most recent period for which figures are available and (b) each of the last five years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The table below shows the percentage of total UK Official Development Assistance delivered by the aid agencies of other countries for each of the past five years.
Year | Proportion of Total UK ODA |
2010 | 0.7% |
2011 | 0.6% |
2012 | 1.4% |
2013 | 1.3% |
2014 | 1.3% |
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid is delivered by third parties in each recipient country.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The UK spends aid through a range of delivery partners. Delivery partners are selected based on a value for money assessment of their capacity to deliver our objectives in the country we are working in.
Overall, for 2014, approximately 60% of total UK aid was delivered through multilateral organisations, 13% through non-governmental organisations, with the remainder through other partners including private sector suppliers, partner governments and research institutes.
Full details of 2015 spend in-country by delivery partners will be published in Statistics on International Development on 17th November.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if her Department will consider developing an atrocity prevention lens similar to the framework used by the UN Office for the Prevention of Genocide to assist in decision-making on bilateral aid and other aid assistance programmes.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The UK continues to be strongly committed to early and effective international action to prevent mass atrocities, which are of grave concern to the Government. The National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 (SDSR) underlined the importance the Government attaches to upholding international humanitarian law and to the prevention of mass atrocities through effective implementation of the UN agreed principle of the Responsibility to Protect.
The Government’s overseas network, strong international partnerships, and early warning mechanisms give the UK significant insight into emerging risks. HMG also produces an internal risk report on countries at risk of instability, which highlights regions in which there are increasing risks of instability, conflict and mass atrocities. The report draws on a wide range of sources and includes indicators that highlight the risk of mass atrocities occurring. The data assessment reflects best practice from NGOs and partner governments’ and is kept under regular review. Policy-makers also take into account atrocity risk analysis from partner governments, the UN and NGOs.
As set out in the SDSR and the UK Aid Strategy, the response to conflict, atrocity and other risks uses diplomatic, development, defence and law enforcement capabilities in an integrated manner. As such, addressing and preventing conflict, instability and state failure is a key priority running through UK aid policies and programmes. This includes the prevention of identity-based mass violence, alongside other forms of violence and instability.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, when a Government Minister last visited (a) Burundi, (b) Democratic Republic of Congo and (c) Central African Republic.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) (Mark Simmonds) visited Burundi in April 2014. My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (James Duddridge) visited Burundi in December 2015.
Ministers from both DFID and the FCO have visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DFID (Lynne Featherstone) in April 2013, the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the FCO (Mark Simmonds) in April 2014, and the Minister of State at the FCO (Baroness Anelay) in October 2015.
Ministers have not visited the Central African Republic (CAR) in recent years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of UK aid in improving access to family planning in the last five years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Our investments aim to reach 24 million additional women and girls by 2020. We are on track to meet this.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to meeting the UN targets on family planning; and in which countries such funding has been allocated.
Answered by Nick Hurd
In 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available, UK spending on Family Planning was £203 million, exceeding our 2012 London Summit commitment to double our yearly spend in this area. We are currently developing our plans for the new spending review period, but in the past the majority of our country offices have had family planning programmes.
Multilateral, regional and civil society funding reaches many more countries. As well as a large commitment to the UNFPA Supplies programme (£356m until 2020), DFID also supports the FP2020 Secretariat, work on shaping reproductive health markets through the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition