Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
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 UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications for each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK is a long-standing supporter of UNHCR, reflecting our shared commitment to international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law and ensuring that UK aid reaches the most marginalised. Since 2010, the UK has contributed in excess of USD 1.2 billion to UNHCR in support of their work to protect refugees and other forcibly displaced people. It is not possible to disaggregate the amount of this funding utilised solely on progressing family reunification applications, nor by those with familial links in the Liverpool area.
The Department for International Development has also committed to provide UNHCR with an annual contribution of £35m core unearmarked funding (up to 2021). This funding will support UNHCR’s work to assist and protect refugees, as well as ambitious system-wide improvements to deliver the greatest possible impact for those most in need.
Funding for UNHCR and for local authorities participating in resettling refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) is provided by the Home Office.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will increase funding from her Department to the UNHCR to support the processing of family links applications in the Liverpool City Council area in each year for which information is available.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK is a long-standing supporter of UNHCR, reflecting our shared commitment to international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law and ensuring that UK aid reaches the most marginalised. Since 2010, the UK has contributed in excess of USD 1.2 billion to UNHCR in support of their work to protect refugees and other forcibly displaced people. It is not possible to disaggregate the amount of this funding utilised solely on progressing family reunification applications, nor by those with familial links in the Liverpool area.
The Department for International Development has also committed to provide UNHCR with an annual contribution of £35m core unearmarked funding (up to 2021). This funding will support UNHCR’s work to assist and protect refugees, as well as ambitious system-wide improvements to deliver the greatest possible impact for those most in need.
Funding for UNHCR and for local authorities participating in resettling refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) is provided by the Home Office.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether she plans to undertake a review of her Department’s role in the global response to HIV/AIDS; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK continues to play its part in tackling HIV and is proud to be the second largest funder of HIV prevention, treatment and care. Our support to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNAIDS, Unitaid and civil society organisations have helped save millions of lives. Globally 20 million people are now on life saving treatment and new HIV infections among children have dramatically declined.
DFID has no immediate plans to undertake a separate review or impact assessment of the UK’s global response to HIV.
The UK is guided by our 2013 review to integrate HIV within broader development and health systems strengthening work. We continue to pursue this approach.
Annual reviews of all DFID’s programmes are publicly available on the DFID Development Tracker.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, for what reasons her Department has not undertaken a cumulative impact assessment of its work on the global response to HIV/AIDS since 2013.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK continues to play its part in tackling HIV and is proud to be the second largest funder of HIV prevention, treatment and care. Our support to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, UNAIDS, Unitaid and civil society organisations have helped save millions of lives. Globally 20 million people are now on life saving treatment and new HIV infections among children have dramatically declined.
DFID has no immediate plans to undertake a separate review or impact assessment of the UK’s global response to HIV.
The UK is guided by our 2013 review to integrate HIV within broader development and health systems strengthening work. We continue to pursue this approach.
Annual reviews of all DFID’s programmes are publicly available on the DFID Development Tracker.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 65645, on Department for International Development: Brexit, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations are within her Department's remit, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.
Answered by Lord Wharton of Yarm
DFID works with the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU’s financial institution, on its external lending.
While we do not have a record of staff time spent on engagement with the Bank, my department does currently support two Seconded Experts within the EIB.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations within her Department's remit the Government plans to withdraw from when the UK leaves the EU, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.
Answered by Rory Stewart
As set out in the recent White Paper (The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union), the Government will discuss with the EU and Member States our future status and arrangements with regard to EU agencies.