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Written Question
Staff
Thursday 18th December 2014

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff are employed in her Department's headquarter buildings.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

DFID employs 807 staff in the London Headquarters and 581 staff in the East Kilbride Headquarters.

Written Question
Furniture
Monday 15th December 2014

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many desks are in her Department's main building; how many such desks are (a) owned and (b) leased by her Department; and what the cost is per desk of leasing.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

There are 650 desks in our main building at 22 Whitehall, London. We also have 834 desks in our office in Abercrombie House, East Kilbride. All desks are owned by the Department for International Development.

Written Question
South Sudan
Wednesday 15th October 2014

Asked by: Helen Goodman (Labour - Bishop Auckland)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to prevent famine in South Sudan.

Answered by Baroness Featherstone

The UK has adopted the role of early responder to the crisis in South Sudan and is the second largest donor to the country’s Crisis Response Plan. Between January and September 2014, DFID contributed £82.5 million of humanitarian funding to South Sudan which included £16 million to the World Food Programme for general food distribution, £8.3 million to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, and £8 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross to stimulate local production via seed, tool and fishing net distribution, as well as vaccination of livestock. Recent UN food security analysis has found that the emergency food security response was a critical factor in averting a widely-predicted outbreak of famine in 2014.

Despite success to date in famine-prevention, communities in conflict-affected states remain extremely vulnerable and we remain concerned about the humanitarian situation in 2015 as the risk of famine is still very real if the conflict continues. For this reason, the UK announced last month a further £25 million of assistance, the majority of which will be spent on work to bolster food security. We continue to work with the UN and other donors to raise the prominence of the appeal and secure new and increased commitments of funds.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Sep 2014
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"2. What her Department’s role is in the relief effort for people affected by the situation in Gaza...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Sep 2014
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"I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his promotion and thank him for his answer. As the House knows, children have borne the brunt of the recent conflict: 500 have died, 1,000 are permanently disabled and half a million cannot go to school. Yet the UN’s appeal is only half …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 Oct 2013
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"Has the Secretary of State had any discussions with the mobile phone companies that source some of their rare minerals in Democratic Republic of Congo, thereby financing the warring parties? If she has not, may I suggest that she does?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Jul 2013
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"Q11. The Prime has been helping Jersey-registered companies with their exports. Perhaps he could tell the House whether the reason he took Petrofac’s Ayman Asfari with him to Kazakhstan was because he had donated £300,000 to the Tory party...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jul 2012
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"Q14. My constituent is recovering from cancer but she has had her employment and support allowance stopped after 365 days. The Government’s consultation on changing the rule ended in March. When will we see justice for the 7,000 cancer patients in that situation?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 May 2012
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"5. What programmes his Department has put in place to improve women’s health in Egypt...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 23 May 2012
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"The rate of female genital mutilation in Egypt is now 70%. Some in the country’s political parties want to change the constitution to end all legal restrictions on the practice. I am sure that if the proposal was to chop off part of men’s genitalia, the Minister would put this …..."
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