Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many records her Department holds that have reached the time limit for their transfer to the National Archives but have not been transferred.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
7,680 records (files) have reached the relevant time limit (31 December 2018), where they have still to be reviewed for either transfer to The National Archives for permanent preservation or disposal.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which (a) external data analysts and (b) data collection companies her Department has used in each of the last five years.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
This information is not held centrally within the department.
Details of all DFID’s contracts with suppliers above the OJEU threshold are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive. Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people in her Department with responsibility for social media are employed on an (a) full and (b) part-time basis.
Answered by Rory Stewart
This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the UK's international aid budget is managed by the EU.
Answered by Rory Stewart
In 2015, 10.9% of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) was made up of core assessed contributions to the EU and spending managed through the European Development Fund (EDF).
Asked by: Deidre Brock (Scottish National Party - Edinburgh North and Leith)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the UK's contribution to the performance of the UN's Millenium Development Goals.
Answered by Justine Greening
The MDGs have been an enormous success, helping to focus global attention on poverty and resulting in, for example, extreme poverty being halved, maternal deaths falling by 45% and the under-five deaths dropping from 12m a year to 6m a year.
The UK has made a significant contribution to these successes. For example, the UK has supported over 43 million people to access water, sanitation or hygiene interventions; and over 19 million children under 5 and pregnant women to access nutrition programmes. The UK’s binding commitment to 0.7% of GNI for official development assistance is solid evidence of the UK’s leadership on international development.
The UK continues to make a strong contribution to the ongoing negotiations in the United Nations to agree the post-2015 Development Agenda in advance of the post-2015 summit in September of this year, building on the Prime Minister’s co-chairing of the High Level Panel. The UK will play its full part in delivering the post-2015 agenda when it is launched in January 2016.