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 estimate she has made of the proportion of official development assistance which will be spent by other Departments in each year until 2019-20.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Table 1 below provides the estimated proportion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to be spent by other government departments and cross-government funds. Funding is dispersed across a wide range of departments and cross-government funds. Expected proportions are based on ODA budget allocations in order to meet the government’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) on ODA in each calendar year.
Table 1: Expected proportion of ODA to be spent by other government departments, 2017/18-2019/20
. | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | ||
Non-DFID departmental spend (incl cross-gov funds) | 20% | 23% |
| 25% | |
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 many civil service staff, by grade, work in her Department's Special Advisers' Office.
Answered by Rory Stewart
DFID’s Special Advisers’ Office is supported by 2 Civil Servants at Grade B2/Executive Officers. These staff members also perform broader roles within the Secretary of State’s office and DFID’s Top Management Group.
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 the ministerial responsibilities within her Department are of the new joint Department for International Development-Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Mr Stewart and Mr Burt will build on the existing close cooperation between DFID and the FCO to strengthen the coordination of Britain's diplomatic and development work around the world. Individual responsibilities for all of our Ministers are available on our website (Rory Stewart OBE MP and Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP).
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 many civil servants of her Department will be employed to work in the private offices of the joint Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Department for International Development currently employs 9 civil servants in the private offices of the two joint DFID and FCO ministers.
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 humanitarian aid budget was disbursed for (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) three years or more in each of the last three years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Due to the nature of Humanitarian Responses, DFID cannot always allocate humanitarian budgets in advance. However, over the last three budget periods DFID’s spend on humanitarian aid was allocated as follows (rounded to the nearest 5%):
and
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 humanitarian aid budget in 2016 was allocated for a period of two or more years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Due to the nature of Humanitarian Responses, DFID cannot always allocate humanitarian budgets in advance. However, in 2016 over 80 per cent of DFID’s spend on humanitarian aid was to projects with an operational period of two or more years.
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 funding her Department has provided to tackle the drought and food shortages in Somaliland (a) bilaterally and (b) multilaterally, by agency or organisation in the last six months.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
The table below provides a breakdown of this funding by implementing partner.
DFID funding in Somalia for July – December 2016, by partner agency | |
Partner | Amount £GBP |
Multilaterals | . |
World Food Programme (WFP) | £6.1million |
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) | £5.5 million |
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) | £5.5 million |
UNICEF | £4.4 million |
International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) | £3 million |
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) | £250,000 |
Bilateral | . |
Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) | £8.7 million |
NRC led NGO consortium (NRC, SCI, IRC, Concern, Cesvi) | £3.2 million |
Save the Children(SCI) led NGO consortium (SCI, ACF, Concern) | £1.4 million |
Galway Development Services International (GDSI) | £380,000 |
International NGO Safety Organisation (INSO) | £270,000 |
Grand Total | £38.7 million |
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 many civil service staff by grade work in her Department's Special Advisers' Office.
Answered by Rory Stewart
DFID’s Special Advisers’ Office is supported by 2 Civil Servants at Grade B2/Executive Officer. These staff members also perform broader roles within the Secretary of State’s office and DFID’s Top Management Group.
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, if she will publish a list of the (a) speeches given outside Parliament, (b) articles published and (c) media interviews given by each Minister of her Department, on her Department's areas of responsibility since the appointment of each of those Ministers.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Ministerial speeches are published on Gov.uk. A list of articles published and media interviews given by each Minister is not available centrally and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.
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 many overseas visits to DFID-funded (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral programmes were made by each Minister of her Department in each of the last six years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
DFID Ministers have visited a range of countries overseas since their appointment. Information on Ministerial travel and meetings with external organisations is published as part of DFID’s quarterly transparency return on www.gov.uk.