Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many data breaches her Department has reported to the Information Commissioner in each of the last five years.
Answered by Wendy Morton
DFID has not reported any data breaches to the Information Commission in each of the last five years.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department has allocated to the Ogoniland region of Nigeria for the clearing up of pollution resulting from oil extraction; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Duddridge
The UK Government provided technical support to Nigerian institutions through DFID’s Foster programme from 2016 to 2018 and through the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund. UK support included project management, community participation in clean-up operations, and to government bodies to fulfil their responsibilities as well as monitoring of the overall project. Support was also given for alternative businesses e.g. cassava processing. We have no plans to provide further support at this time due to prioritisation of Aid projects and because the UN Environment Programme and other donors remain engaged through monitoring and advice.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) solar panels and (b) wind turbines her Department's buildings (a) have in 2020 and (b) had in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nigel Adams
DFID has two Headquarter buildings in the UK: one at 22 Whitehall and the other at Abercrombie House, East Kilbride.
Neither of the headquarter buildings have (a) solar panels nor (b) wind turbines.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library a list of the workplace benefits that her Department provides to its staff with caring responsibilities.
Answered by Nigel Adams
DFID encourages managers to take a positive, proactive approach in working together with employees to agree arrangements for caring, taking account of both caring and business needs. DFID has signed up to the Carer’s Charter and encourage managers and employees to record caring arrangements on our HR systems.
In terms of workplace benefits, DFID offers:
To strengthen our support and learn from best practice, we have also recently signed up to Employers for Carers.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff in her Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The below table shows how many DFID staff voluntarily declared they have caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Year | No. of staff with caring responsibilities |
2015 | 58 |
2016 | 52 |
2017 | 71 |
2018 | 70 |
2019 | 91 |
DFID supports our carers through robust discretionary leave, which we have used effectively in the context of COVID-19. In addition to this, we have an active Carers Network that works to provide support for our staff, and we are also members of Employers for Carers.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to which organisations her Department allocated funding to deliver aid to Haiti as a result of the (a) 2010 earthquake and (b) 2010-11 outbreak of cholera in that country.
Answered by Alistair Burt
For the 2010 earthquake, we provided support through contributing to the International Federation of the Red Cross Emergency Appeal, Pan American Health Organisation, Merlin, Action Contre Le Faim, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, Humanity and Inclusion, Oxfam and the International Organisation for Migration to address urgent humanitarian need.
To assist in enabling the international response, we provided support to the World Food Programme, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, CARE and the Government of Haiti. Additionally, we contributed to The Sun “Helping Haiti Appeal”.
During the cholera response of 2010-2011, we provided support through Oxfam, Plan and the Pan American Health Organisation.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to Haiti in response to the (a) 2010 earthquake and (b) 2010-11 outbreak of cholera in that country.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Data for all DFID’s spend is available in the Statistics on International Development publication at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2017
The amount DFID has spent in Haiti is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/659763/Table4c.ods
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department has offered to the Government of Madagascar since the outbreak of plague on that island.
Answered by Rory Stewart
DFID has helped the Government of Madagascar monitor and respond to the plague outbreak through our support to the World Health Organisation (WHO). This has included sending 114 experts, mobilising 1.2 million doses of antibiotics, and establishing nine specialist treatment centres. Protocols on clinical management, safe burials, and airport screenings have been developed and are being implemented. DFID and the FCO have been closely monitoring the outbreak response in Madagascar, including during a visit by DFID officials.
In addition, the Department of Health deployed the ODA funded UK Public Health Rapid Support Team to Madagascar in the early stages of the outbreak, which provided expertise in epidemiological surveillance, case management, infection prevention and control measures. The team have now returned to the UK as the outbreak has tailed off and the response has moved to a more steady state.