Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is offering to help tackle the malaria outbreak in Burundi.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is providing to Indian states affected by flooding.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Since 2004 the Indian Government neither seeks nor accepts official international assistance from foreign governments for disaster relief. The Indian Government is leading the response and providing humanitarian and relief assistance. There has been no approach to the UK Government from the Government of India.
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is offering to help tackle the dengue fever outbreak in the Philippines.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
The UK contributes both technical and financial resources to global mechanisms and funds such as the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and the World Health Organization’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE).
GOARN and CFE have the potential to deploy international resources from the UK and other countries to support responses to outbreaks such as the current dengue outbreak in the Philippines.
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support his Department is providing to help tackle (a) food and (b) water shortages in Zimbabwe.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Due to a combination of drought, economic challenges and the impact of Cyclone Idai, Zimbabwe is facing a humanitarian crisis. Without support, more than 5.5 million people will not have access to the food they need by March 2020. In response, on 9 August 2019, the Secretary of State for International Development announced a new £49million Humanitarian and Resilience Programme that will build on current DFID interventions in livelihoods, food security, resilience, and rural water supply by helping communities and institutions cope with climate change, the macroeconomic context, and other shocks and stresses
This programme is in line with the Global Goals of reducing poverty, achieving food security, ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and tackling climate change and its impacts.
No UK aid is given directly to the Government of Zimbabwe; all support is channelled through trusted aid partners.
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what commitments the UK is legally bound by as a result of signing up to the UN Global compact on migration.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UN Global Compact on Migration is not legally binding. It sets out a series of guidelines for improved international action and co-operation on migration, whilst importantly respecting a State’s sovereign right to determine its own migration policy. The UK is not legally bound by any new commitments as a result of endorsing the Compact.