Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that countries invest in their health care systems.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
Strong and resilient health systems that meet essential health care needs for all are central to our health efforts. DFID supports countries to mobilise and allocate more of their own domestic resources for health through international advocacy, multilateral investment and our programmes. We also fund technical assistance to strengthen and implement robust health financing strategies and reforms, helping countries to achieve ‘more money for health and more health for the money’.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to the promotion of universal health coverage in each of the last five years.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
DFID is the world’s second largest health donor. Strengthening health systems to deliver universal health coverage (UHC) is a priority for the UK and an overarching goal for DFID health investments. However, we do not classify spend on promoting UHC separately from other health investments.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding from the public purse the UK has provided to the Trust Fund for Africa in each year since its establishment.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) was established at the Valletta Summit in November 2015. To date, the UK Government has made direct contributions to the EUTF of €0.6m (approximately £515,000) in 2016/17, a further €0.6m in 2017/18, and €1.6m (approximately £1,375,000) in 2018/19.
In addition, circa 15% of the €3.7bn (£3.18bn) in funds provided to the EUTF from the EU budget and the European Development Fund is attributable to UK Official Development Assistance, an amount of approximately €555m (£477m) in total.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much UK funding is allocated to the Department for Combating Illegal Migration in Libya; from which UK Department that budget is drawn; and how much of that funding qualifies as official development assistance.
Answered by Alistair Burt
No UK funding is allocated to the Libyan Department for Combating Illegal Migration.
Asked by: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour (Co-op) - Brighton, Kemptown)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she has taken to ensure that the effectiveness of UK ODA will not be affected by reductions in the number of staff in her Department.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
In common with other government departments and in response to a request from the Cabinet Office, DFID has been considering what support it may be able to offer other government departments in the event of a no deal EU Exit. This contingency planning is specifically for a no deal EU Exit scenario only.
In all scenarios, essential DFID business must continue to ensure that we meet the 0.7% commitment, with impact and value for money. EU exit will not prevent us from continuing the lifesaving humanitarian work that we carry out around the world.