Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much aid in real terms the UK has provided to refugee camps in and around Syria in each of the last five years; what comparative assessment she has made of how much the UK has provided relative to that of each of the five largest donors; and if she will make statement.
Answered by Rory Stewart
To date, the UK has delivered £1.5 billion in support to those affected by the Syria conflict, including Syrians who have been internally displaced and who have fled as refugees to neighbouring countries. The vast majority of these Syrians are hosted within communities, and are not in camps.
While we can supply overall figures for the level of UK funding inside Syria and to neighbouring countries, we are unable to provide a breakdown of the amounts that have gone to refugee camps. A breakdown of funding by country and financial year is provided in the table below:
Country | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/2015 | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 (up to December 2016) | Total spend |
Syria | £2.1m | £40.2m | £130.4m | £149.1m | £188.5m | £187.4m | £697.7m |
Lebanon | . | £11.7m | £72.1m | £62.0m | £95.9m | £94.8m | £336.6m |
Jordan | . | £17.7m | £68.9m | £50.7m | £48.4m | £140.9m | £326.5m |
Turkey | . | £3.3m | £11.1m | £9.8m | £7.8m | £86.1m | £118.0m |
Iraq | . | £2.3m | £11.2m | £5.6m | . | . | £19.1m |
Egypt | . | . | £2.3m | . | . | . | £2.3m |
Regional | . | £0.3m | £3.2m | £2.5m | £4.7m | £4.0m | £14.7m |
Total | £2.1m | £75.3m | £299.2m | £279.7m | £345.3m | £513.4m | £1,514.9m |
Cumulatively over the period 2012 – 2016, according to the United Nations Financial Tracking Service, the UK is the second largest donor to the humanitarian response in Syria and the region, after the US.
Asked by: Charles Walker (Conservative - Broxbourne)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the number of its senior civil servants who will potentially fall under the provisions of the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive, 2015/849; and what assessment she has made of which of her Department's agencies or other public bodies will potentially be classed as holding a prominent public function for the purposes of that directive.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Under the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which will be transposed into national law by June 2017, a politically exposed person is one who has been entrusted with a prominent public function domestically or by a foreign country. This would include some senior civil servants, such as ambassadors and chargés d'affaires. The Government's view is that the Directive permits a risk-based approach to the identification of whether an individual is a politically exposed person and, when identified, the Directive enables the application of different degrees of enhanced measures to reflect the risks posed. The Government will be setting out this view in a consultation which will be published shortly.
The changes proposed under the Directive should not prevent any individual in this category from gaining or maintaining access to financial services. The Treasury regularly raises these issues with financial institutions and the regulator, and we encourage financial institutions to take a proportionate, risk-based approach when applying these measures.