Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2021 to Question 144824 Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees, when she plans to provide details of the two upstream UK Export Finance funded projects located in Brazil and one midstream project in Turkmenistan.
Answered by Graham Stuart
UK Export Finance (UKEF) carries out due diligence on all relevant aspects of a project before reaching a decision on whether to provide support. UKEF is currently reviewing whether any projects that had been under consideration fall within the limited exemptions to the new policy. It is not UKEF policy to comment on potential transactions for reasons of commercial sensitivity.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much Official Development Assistance his Department (a) was allocated in (i) 2019-20 and (ii) 2020-21 and (b) will be allocated in 2021-22.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade’s (DIT) final allocations for Official Development Assistance (ODA), as per the Department’s Supplementary Estimate were as following:
a) i) 2019-20 £5.4m
ii) 2020-21 £8.7m.
b) 2021-22 allocations: £0m
[These figures include ODA received via the Joint Funds Unit as well as directly from the (former) Department for International Development.]
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2020 to Question 118559 on Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees, what the locations are of the (a) two upstream projects, (b) one midstream project, (c) two downstream projects and (d) two power projects.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The projects referred to in the response to PQ118559 are in the following locations:
a) The upstream projects are both located in Brazil.
b) The midstream project is in Turkmenistan.
c) One downstream project is in Malaysia, and the other is in Turkey
d) The previous Answer referred to one power project, which is located in Iraq.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2020 to Question 63442 on Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique, if her Department will (a) undertake and (b) publish an Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (ESHR) independent of the ESHR published by the private financiers of the Mozambique LNG project.
Answered by Graham Stuart
In line with its regular policy, UK Export Finance (UKEF) has undertaken an environmental, social and human rights (ESHR) review of the Mozambique LNG Project. This has been conducted alongside other export credit agencies and the African Development Bank, with the support of an independent ESHR consultant.
This review considered all the relevant ESHR documentation provided by the Project sponsors such as ESHR impact assessments, strategies, management and monitoring plans, amongst others. UKEF published a Category A notice of its consideration of the Project in August 2019, which includes a link to an Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) of the Mozambique LNG project and related information. This notice can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/category-a-project-under-consideration-mozambique-lng-project. In undertaking its review, UKEF considered the most up-to-date ESHIA.