Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216932, what venues were used for the DfID Direct Roadshows; and what the market value is of the cost of hiring each such venue for an event.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The DFID Direct Roadshows were held in the following venues:
• Temple of Peace, Welsh Centre for International Affairs
• The Paintworks, Bristol
• University Place, The University of Manchester
The Roadshow events incurred no costs to the department.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216932, what publicity material was produced for the DfID Direct Roadshows.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
A one page hand-out providing the details of three funding opportunities for small and medium sized civil society organisations was printed within the department by officials.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects the Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness in High Risk Contexts programme has established in the Philippines; and what the (a) outputs and (b) outcomes of those projects has been to date.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
The programme has provided the following support to WFP and UNICEF:
· WFP - £130,000 of emergency food supplies able to support 2.4 million people for a two-week period, responding to GoP requests for food, non-food and logistics equipment in various affected areas;
· UNICEF – £320,000 of emergency supplies able to support 6,000 households in Manila, 2,000 in Tacloban and 4,000 in Mindanao;
· 80% of UNICEF country staff trained in emergency response.
DFID will measure and assess outputs and outcomes in collaboration with WFP and UNICEF.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of the funding for the Strengthening Humanitarian Preparedness in High Risk Contexts programme was allocated to the Philippines.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
£450,000 out of £20m - 2.25% - has been committed to date. Decisions on additional funding will be made in early 2015.
DFID’s total funding to the Philippines on humanitarian response, recovery and preparedness is currently £92.3 million.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216932, how many officials of each grade were involved in delivering her Department's Direct Roadshows; and how many Ministers and officials were in attendance at each such event.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Each of the Roadshow events included a key note speech from the Secretary of State and/or DFID Director General and a presentation by a DFID official.
In response to your question, please see the table below:
Event | Officials | Ministers |
Cardiff | 4 (2 B grade and 2 A grade members of staff) | 1 - Secretary of State |
Bristol | 6 (2 B grade, 2 A grade, 1 Senior Civil Servant and 1 Director General) | 0 |
Manchester | 5 (2 B grade, 1 A grade, 1 Senior Civil Servant and 1 Director General) | 0 |
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216932, how many (a) Direct Roadshows and (b) other events have been organised by her Department since 2010; and where those events have taken place.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
Three DFID Direct Roadshows have been organised by the department. These events have taken place in Cardiff, Bristol and Manchester.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how her Department ensures that monasteries in Burma which receive funds from her Department promote religious and social cohesion; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Desmond Swayne
DFID supports the Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) which has the key objective of increasing the number and proportion of children who complete a quality basic education, including within monastic schools. The Burnet Institute is one of the MEC‘s founding partners and channels MEC funding to the Monastic Education Development Group (MEDG), which is the national level coordinating and decision-making body for the monastic education sector. It is a condition of Monastic Education Development Group support that schools not take part in any activity that risks religious and social cohesion. Any school that is found in breach of this requirement will have all funding and support withdrawn immediately. The Burnet Institute works with the management team of the MEDG to integrate peace and conflict resolution into the teacher training program.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many women in business in the Arab world have received mentoring and expert advice from counterparts in the UK and other G8 countries as part of the package announced at the G8 Deauville Partnership conference in London in June 2013.
Answered by Justine Greening
According to the most recent progress reports, 121 women have received mentoring and/or advice through the package announced at the G8 Deauville Partnership conference.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which stand-alone goals and targets the Government hopes to achieve in the forthcoming inter-governmental negotiations on the sustainable development goals.
Answered by Justine Greening
The intergovernmental negotiations process will commence in 2015 and the final framework of goals and targets is subject to negotiation in this forum.
Asked by: Gavin Shuker (Independent - Luton South)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress the Government has made in negotiating specific targets for the delivery of peace, jobs and justice in the sustainable development goals.
Answered by Justine Greening
The Open Working Group Report’s proposals show that significant progress has been made in building consensus around the importance of including peace, jobs and justice in the final post-2015 framework.