Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that humanitarian workers globally can carry out their roles without risk of attack.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
The UK Government is committed to: advocating for greater compliance with International Humanitarian Law which includes the protection of the wounded and sick, health care personnel and facilities, medical transport and aid workers around the world; supporting our partners to work according to the humanitarian principles including impartiality and neutrality; and providing direct funding to organisations directly improving security and risk management of aid workers, and improving the research in this area.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Rory Stewart
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for her Department and its non-departmental public body in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Since the 2010-2011 financial year, DFID published evaluations are available on the Department’s external website. No specific evaluation of DFID’s development policies carried out by any commissioned external organisation has been published since the 2010-2011 financial year.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what amount her Department and its agency spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
Answered by Justine Greening
Details of DFID’s total spent on centrally commissioned research (via DFID’s Research and Evidence Division) over financial years 2009 to 2014 can be found on the table below.
Table 1
Financial Year | DFID’s Total Gross Spend | DFID’s Total Spend on Centrally Commissioned Research | Proportion of Centrally Commissioned Research as % of Total DFID Budget |
2009-10 | £6.63b | £177m | 2.7% |
2010-11 | £7.69b | £203m | 2.6% |
2011-12 | £7.68b | £222m | 2.9% |
2012-13 | £7.67b | £230m | 3.0% |
2013-14 | £10.06b | £305m | 3.0% |