Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of Official Development Assistance funding has been allocated to fossil fuel projects in each year since 2010.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
DFID does not allocate money to help countries develop specific types of fuel. Our energy assistance is based on the requirements of individual developing countries, and often helps develop clean and renewable energy. A portion of energy assistance has supported the use of non-renewable energy including fossil fuels, such as natural gas. The Statistics on International Development provides information on support for energy, including non-renewable energy, for bilateral assistance and the UK’s share of multilateral assistance. Figures from 2010 to 2016, the most recently available year, are shown in the table below.
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
UK ODA support for non-renewable energy £m | 67 | 42 | 139 | 79 | 60 | 20 | 45 |
Non-renewable ODA as % of total ODA | 0.8% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% |
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the persecution of the Tawerga in Libya.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK regularly raises the displacement of the Tawerga community with interlocutors in Libya. In April 2018, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya raised the issue of a political deal between Misrata and Tawerga when he met with political and military leaders in Misrata, urging them to focus on its swift implementation. This political deal came into effect in June 2018 and should allow for the return of displaced Tawergans to their hometown.
The UK is one of the world’s largest contributors to the UN’s general budget. This budget is used to fund the work of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which is supporting displaced Tawergans in the Qareret al-Qatef camp. Through the Conflict Stability and Security Fund, the UK is supporting the UNDP’s Stabilisation Facility for Libya (SFL); SFL Board members recently agreed that work to support the Tawerga should be a priority area. The UK has also recently signed a contract with a Libyan NGO to deliver mine risk education to displaced people from Tawerga, in order to reduce the risk of harm from explosive remnants of war on their return to their homes.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department is providing to the Tawerga that are currently displaced in the UN-supported Qararet al-Qatef camp.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK regularly raises the displacement of the Tawerga community with interlocutors in Libya. In April 2018, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya raised the issue of a political deal between Misrata and Tawerga when he met with political and military leaders in Misrata, urging them to focus on its swift implementation. This political deal came into effect in June 2018 and should allow for the return of displaced Tawergans to their hometown.
The UK is one of the world’s largest contributors to the UN’s general budget. This budget is used to fund the work of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which is supporting displaced Tawergans in the Qareret al-Qatef camp. Through the Conflict Stability and Security Fund, the UK is supporting the UNDP’s Stabilisation Facility for Libya (SFL); SFL Board members recently agreed that work to support the Tawerga should be a priority area. The UK has also recently signed a contract with a Libyan NGO to deliver mine risk education to displaced people from Tawerga, in order to reduce the risk of harm from explosive remnants of war on their return to their homes.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is offering to people from the Tawerga community that have been displaced outside Libya as a result of the actions of the Libyan government.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK regularly raises the displacement of the Tawerga community with interlocutors in Libya. In April 2018, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya raised the issue of a political deal between Misrata and Tawerga when he met with political and military leaders in Misrata, urging them to focus on its swift implementation. This political deal came into effect in June 2018 and should allow for the return of displaced Tawergans to their hometown.
The UK is one of the world’s largest contributors to the UN’s general budget. This budget is used to fund the work of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which is supporting displaced Tawergans in the Qareret al-Qatef camp. Through the Conflict Stability and Security Fund, the UK is supporting the UNDP’s Stabilisation Facility for Libya (SFL); SFL Board members recently agreed that work to support the Tawerga should be a priority area. The UK has also recently signed a contract with a Libyan NGO to deliver mine risk education to displaced people from Tawerga, in order to reduce the risk of harm from explosive remnants of war on their return to their homes.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing (a) bilaterally and (b) multilaterally to relief efforts following Cyclone Sagar in Somaliland; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
We are very concerned about the plight of the many thousands of people affected by the recent tropical storm in Somaliland in particular and flooding in Somalia more generally. The UK’s early commitment of £45m for the humanitarian response so far in Somalia in 2018 is enabling our bilateral and multilateral partners, such as World Food Programme, UNICEF, Food and Agriculture Organization, OCHA, Islamic Relief, the Somali Red Crescent Society and Save the Children, to be flexible and adapt to urgent needs as they arise. In response to Tropical Storm Sagar, existing NGO and UN partners are drawing on pre-positioned relief supplies and redirecting resources to provide urgently needed water treatment kits, tents, and health and nutrition supplies sufficient to meet the needs of more than 400,000 people in Somaliland and other affected places. The relief effort is continuing, along with assessment work to identify longer term recovery needs.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to support Parliamentary elections in Somaliland in 2019.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The UK plans to support the delivery of local and parliamentary elections in Somaliland in 2019 by contributing to an audit and update of the voter registration system, providing essential technical expertise for the national election commission, and supporting people with disability to engage in Somaliland’s democratic processes.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support the people and Government of Somaliland in the aftermath of Cyclone Sagar.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The UK is one of the largest humanitarian donors in Somalia. DFID funded partners have pre-positioned relief supplies in Somaliland for use in the aftermath of Cyclone Sagar. These include water treatment kits, tents, health and nutrition supplies that can cater for more than 400,000 people. Airlifts of supplies to flood-affected areas are also underway, funded in part by UKAid. Our partners are undertaking needs assessments to determine the full extent of destruction caused.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid her Department provided aid to Somaliland which was delivered by multilateral agencies in each of the last three years.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
DFID does not compile formal aid spend statistics broken down at sub-national level. However, information on UK Government spend in Somalia through multilateral agencies, which includes spend in Somaliland, is shown in the table below for the last 3 calendar years, 2014 to 2016.
UK Official Development Assistance to Somalia, 2014 – 2016
| 2014 (£ thousand) | 2015 (£ thousand) | 2016 (£ thousand) |
Bilateral funding | 123,791 | 121,828 | 151,715 |
Of which was channelled through multilateral agencies | 56,769 | 41,788 | 57,614 |
Estimated core multilateral funding1 | 18,474 | 23,610 | 21,061 |
1. UK funding to the core budgets of multilateral organisations cannot be directly attributed to countries, instead estimates are calculated on the basis of the spend of the multilaterals in countries and the UK’s share of core funding to multilateral organisations.
Source: Statistics on International Development
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's bilateral aid spending on HIV and AIDS is specified for work with (a) women and girls, (b) the LGBT+ community, (c) men who have sex with men and (d) intravenous drug users.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK’s global HIV response prioritises those left behind by the huge progress made in recent years, including these four groups. For example, we are proud to be a founding supporter of the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund, which supports the grassroots response led by those groups themselves. DFID reports bilateral aid expenditure annually against specific sector codes, including HIV and AIDS, to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. These are publically available on the Statistics for International Development website: GPEX tables. Granular data on proportion of spend targeting specific groups affected by HIV and AIDS are not compiled.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the Ross Fund her Department has spent on tackling (a) tuberculosis, (b) malaria and (c) HIV/AIDS since that fund was established.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Details of DFID funding to 31 December 2017, under the Ross Fund portfolio, to tackle tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, are outlined below:
Tuberculosis: £16.25 million
Malaria: £32.13 million
HIV/AIDS: £10.2 million