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Written Question
Developing Countries: Poverty
Wednesday 10th June 2020

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

How often her Department assesses the effectiveness of UK funding allocated to the World Bank on ending poverty throughout the world.

Answered by Nigel Adams

The UK is a major funder of the World Bank, a crucial tool in our development work. My Department monitors and assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank continually. We formally review each funding stream to the World Bank Group annually and we publish our assessment online. Our latest assessment concluded that the International Development Association – the concessional arm of the Bank - is ‘performing above expectations’. Amongst other things our money has contributed to the immunisation of 330 million children in the last 9 years.


Written Question
Developing Countries: Female Genital Mutilation
Tuesday 25th February 2020

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment the Department has made of the prevalence of FGM abroad; and what assessment he has made of the trends in the level of FGM in each of the 20 years..

Answered by Wendy Morton

The exact number of girls and women worldwide who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains unknown, however, UNICEF estimates that at least 200 million have been cut in more than 31 countries. Most of these countries are in Africa, parts of the Middle East and Asia. Prevalence varies hugely across these countries, from less than one percent to almost universal. Today, a girl is about one-third less likely to be cut than 30 years ago. But global efforts need to go further and faster if we are to meet the Global Goal to end FGM by 2030. At current rates, 68 million girls are at risk of being cut in the next decade. The UK is leading change in partnership with the Africa-led movement to end FGM, providing £50 million of support over the next five years. UK aid has already helped 10,000 communities, representing over 27 million people, pledge to abandon FGM.


Written Question
Developing Countries: Female Genital Mutilation
Tuesday 25th February 2020

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment his Department has made of the benefits of supporting developing countries to criminalise FGM.

Answered by Wendy Morton

Female Genital Mutilation is a human rights abuse and an extreme form of gender discrimination. Criminalising FGM and properly enforcing the law is key to ending the practice. The UK has already supported The Gambia, Nigeria, and Mauritania to make FGM illegal. DFID recently allocated £2.5 million to the UN, to work with governments to enforce laws in countries where FGM is already illegal but continues to be practised. Evidence shows that legal change is a critical step towards changing attitudes towards FGM. But this must be part of a multi-pronged approach with community-led change at its heart. The UK supports the Africa-led Movement to end FGM, which works at several levels, including by empowering grassroots activists to hold their governments to account.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 May 2019
Ebola Outbreak: DRC

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Written Question
Developing Countries: Trade Promotion
Wednesday 10th October 2018

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

What steps she is taking to promote trade for development.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

My Department is working with the Department for International Trade to ensure our trade policy benefits developing countries as well as the UK. We aim to deliver continuity in our trading arrangements with developing countries as we leave the EU, provide support to help countries trade, and explore options to expand our relationships in the future.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Syria

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Written Question
Sustainable Development: Marine Environment
Thursday 20th July 2017

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding is currently allocated by her Department to projects aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14.

Answered by Rory Stewart

The Department supports activities aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 through our funding to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). For example FAO hosts the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The GEF has funded marine protected areas across the world that are more than twice the size of Alaska.

The UK’s core support to FAO in Financial Year 2016-17 was £17,681,203. DFID’s contribution to the Global Environment Facility in Financial Year 2016017 was £52,500,000. Neither FAO nor the GEF publish a breakdown of spending specifically on SDG14.


Written Question
Developing Countries: Fisheries
Thursday 20th July 2017

Asked by: Pauline Latham (Conservative - Mid Derbyshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many projects her Department is currently supporting are aimed specifically at reducing the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Answered by Rory Stewart

The Department contributes to reducing the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through two multilateral programmes.

DFID core funding to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation includes support to the activities of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. UK support to the Global Environment Facility helps strengthen the management of fisheries and marine protected areas.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Humanitarian Situation in Mosul

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

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