Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has for UK branding for projects funded by the Government through the International Climate Fund.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
Projects funded by the Government through the International Climate Fund carry UK government branding in line with DFID’s branding policy.
Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent meetings she has had with (a) Ministers and (b) officials of the Department for International Trade on the effect on developing countries of EU food tariffs.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Secretary of State meets with her Ministerial colleagues regularly to discuss a variety of issues relating to trade and development. DFID officials are working closely with the Department for International Trade and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the impact of EU tariffs and non-tariff measures on developing country exports.
Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what metrics she uses in monitoring human rights abuse (a) by governments and (b) in countries in receipt of UK aid.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID works closely with the FCO to assess and monitor the civil and political rights context in the countries where it has programmes. DFID draws on the FCO’s annual Human Rights and Democracy Report, which takes international human rights obligations as its starting point, and assesses FCO country specific updates to that report. It takes into account the views of a range of sources including EU and other development partners, and civil society reports.
DFID provides aid to governments when it is satisfied that they share Britain’s commitments to reducing poverty and to respecting human rights. Before providing aid to a partner government, DFID assesses their commitment to four Partnership Principles. These include a commitment to poverty reduction; respecting human rights and other international obligations; improving public financial management, promoting good governance and transparency, and fighting corruption; and strengthening domestic accountability.