Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, to which legislation her Department has applied the Family Test, published in August 2014.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 2017 and the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 are the two pieces of development legislation passed since the Family Test was introduced. The impact of both pieces of legislation at the specific level of the family is small and indirect, and therefore the Family Test was not applied in either case.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any of her Department's funding given to Marie Stopes International goes towards the provision of or advertising for abortion in Kenya.
Answered by Rory Stewart
None
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme, what the difference is between disability life years saved and disability adjusted life years.
Answered by Rory Stewart
With reference to the Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme, there is no difference. The World Health Organisation’s official terminology is ‘Disability Adjusted Life Years’. This represents a year of a person’s life saved from living under the burden of poor health and disease.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of Disability Life Years Saved in African countries under her Department's Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme; and what the financial savings accrued were in each year since 2011.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme has averted an estimated 8 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The financial savings to national health systems since the programme’s inception is an estimated £296 million.
The annual breakdown of estimated savings is as follows:
Programme Year | £, millions saved |
Year 1 | 20 |
Year 2 | 30 |
Year 3 | 46 |
Year 4 | 82 |
Year 5 | 56 |
Year 6 | 62 |
Grand Total | 296 |
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided for new abortion service delivery sites in African countries as part of the Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme during 2011 to 2016; and how many new sites were provided in that period.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme delivers a comprehensive range of reproductive health services. These may include family planning, health education and safe abortion. As the programme takes an integrated approach to family planning, these services are not disaggregated, so funding to support safe abortion cannot be reported on separately.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding from the public purse her Department has provided to organisations or individuals in African countries who support changes to regulatory policy on abortion services at a national level as part of her Department's programme Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancies in each year since 2011.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The Preventing Maternal Deaths programme aims to increase access to family planning services, give women and girls more control over their lives, and reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion. Where national policies on abortion contribute to high levels of maternal death, our programme implementing partners may seek to raise awareness of these issues and support local efforts to achieve reform aimed at saving maternal lives. It is not possible to disaggregate spend on these activities specifically.
Since 2011, DFID has provided £99.8 million to the overall PMD programme which works across 17 countries.
The annual breakdown of spend is:
PMDUP/PMD Spend | |
2011-2012 | 8,033,548 |
2012-2013 | 11,520,953 |
2013-2014 | 16,653,663 |
2014-2015 | 21,219,931 |
2015-2016 | 17,700,570 |
2016-2017 | 16,557,743 |
April 2017 | 8,183,445 |
Total | 99,869,853 |
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any of her Department's funding for abortion services in developing countries has been allocated to countries where abortion is illegal.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
DFID’s position on what we can and cannot support is set out in our policy paper on safe and unsafe abortion available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safe-and-unsafe-abortion-uks-policy-position-on-safe-and-unsafe-abortion-in-developing-countries
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of her Department's spending was made in India through the World Bank in 2015-16.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
DFID’s imputed share of the World Bank’s net disbursements to India in calendar year 2015 was an estimated £30.5 million. This accounted for 0.3 per cent of total DFID’s official development spend in 2015. However, from July 2017 onwards India, as a Middle Income Country, will not benefit from any new lending from the World Bank’s concessional facility, the International Development Association.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her Department's financial contribution to the World Bank was in 2015-16.
Answered by Rory Stewart
The World Bank received £1,223 million in core contributions from the Department for International Development in the calendar year 2015.
Asked by: Fiona Bruce (Conservative - Congleton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken in response to the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
DFID remains concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) with an estimated 50% of the population in need of humanitarian assistance. DFID has a three-year package of humanitarian support to CAR and refugees in Cameroon, enabling the UN and NGOs to provide healthcare, protection, food aid and support for livelihoods. We continue to monitor the situation closely.