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Written Question
Developing Countries: Innovation
Thursday 3rd May 2018

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) the remit and (b) the priorities of the innovation hub will be; what countries will it focus on; how much funding has been allocated to that project; and from which external organisations or government bodies.

Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

The Humanitarian Innovation Hub is currently a cross-UK Government mechanism involving several Government Departments to improve our response to disasters around the world, including by sharing experience and better use of innovation and new technologies. It will draw on existing Departmental budgets. We are in discussion with Other Government Departments and external organisations as the hub is set up.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Syria

"The statement is welcome, and I hope it will be followed by further regular and frequent updates. The Secretary of State knows that many of us are pushing for far stronger actions than sanctions to deal with the full spectrum of Assad’s atrocities, but when she talks about “A new …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 29 Mar 2018
Counter-Daesh Update

"It is good to hear the Secretary of State set out the difficulty in getting aid through to the people of eastern Ghouta that is caused by the crimes committed daily by Russia and Syria, but simply publicising it and arguing against it is not proving sufficient, and nor can …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Humanitarian Situation in Mosul

"The tributes that the Secretary of State has made were right, and the ambition is commendable, but the question is: how is this going to be achieved? People talk facilely about learning the lessons from Iraq, but is it not an example of the collective failure to reconstruct the country …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"What are the Secretary of State and her ministerial colleagues doing about the plight of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who cannot access any UK aid because they are still under siege from the al-Assad Government?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Mar 2017
Counter-Daesh Update

"Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth) about the need to counter the ideology of jihadist Salafism, can the Secretary of State give more detail about the investment being made here in the UK and abroad, military and civil, in directly countering …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q13. The strained accident and emergency provision in my constituency is under review, and the community further up the Cumbrian coast risks losing 24-hour access to accident and emergency and to consultant-led maternity from its local hospital. I understand that the Prime Minister will say that these decisions are to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jan 2016
Syria: Madaya

"Rather than asking the Secretary of State to waste time explaining to the Scottish National party what would happen to a food parcel if we tried to deliver it via a Brimstone supersonic missile, may I ask her to focus more on the issue of Russia? Specifically, what have the …..."
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Written Question
Housing
Thursday 20th November 2014

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for which accommodation her Department has paid for overnight stays in 2014.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

DFID does not publish the names and addresses of the hotels it uses for reasons of duty of care.

Written Question
ICT
Thursday 20th November 2014

Asked by: Lord Walney (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) iphones and (b) ipads her Department has purchased in 2014 to date; and what the cost was of those purchases.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

DFID currently has one iPhone 6+ and two iPads on order. The purchase cost of these items is £1,470.