Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 128376, on Developing Countries: Coal Fired Power Stations, what support her Department provides to developing countries fully deploying abated coal-fired power projects.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
DFID does not provide any bilateral assistance to developing countries for abated coal-fired projects. The UK encourages multilateral organisations to help developing countries make the investment decisions that will best deliver reliable, sustainable and affordable energy which is essential for economic growth and development. The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy is supporting research and demonstration, including through the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, into Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage technology.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February to Question 128376, on Developing Countries: Coal Fired Power Stations,what steps her Department is taking to encourage multilateral organisations to provide financing for projects fully deploying abated coal-fired power; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
DFID does not provide any bilateral assistance to developing countries for abated coal-fired projects. The UK encourages multilateral organisations to help developing countries make the investment decisions that will best deliver reliable, sustainable and affordable energy which is essential for economic growth and development. The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy is supporting research and demonstration, including through the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, into Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage technology.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the openness to trade in UK (a) goods and (b) services of developing countries in receipt of UK aid broken down by recipient country.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The Department for International Trade and the Department for International Development are working together to ensure development and global prosperity are at the heart of UK trade and investment policy, supporting countries to leave aid dependency behind and become our trading partners of the future.
Assessments of trade openness are available from sources such as the World Trade Organisation’s Trade Policy Reviews. In countries where DFID has a bilateral aid programme, DFID is helping to address the barriers to inclusive growth.
Asked by: Graham Brady (Conservative - Altrincham and Sale West)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what projects funded by her Department in which countries have had work carried out relating to that project in a third country in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and for each such project in (a) that country and (b) the third country, what the (i) cost, (ii) purpose and (iii) location was of that work.
Answered by Rory Stewart
In line with international standards on ODA reporting DFID publishes a range of statistics on the benefiting country of our aid programmes, these are available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics
DFID has always delivered some programmes which are located in one country and benefit another developing country or countries. These include programmes delivered by multilateral organisations, programmes that benefit an entire region and research into the problems of developing countries. It would be costly and complex to gather and aggregate the precise type of information requested, but a range of project level information is available from the Development Tracker: www.devtracker.co.uk .