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Written Question
Nigeria
Thursday 29th January 2015

Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps the Government is taking to provide support for the education of girls and young women in conflict-affected areas of Northern Nigeria.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

DFID has a number of large education programmes across northern Nigeria, the risks to which are being actively managed to ensure that we can still get 800,000 more children into better quality primary schools by 2015.

The UK has also committed £1 million to the Nigerian Government’s “Safe Schools Initiative” to help protect children at school in north east Nigeria and provide schooling to children displaced by the violence.

Written Question
Nigeria
Thursday 29th January 2015

Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans the Government has to provide increased support to people displaced as a result of the violence by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

The UK has provided £1 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver food, safe water, clothes, shelter material and other basic necessities to those people displaced following attacks by Boko Haram.

A further £1 million of UK funding is committed to the Nigerian Government’s “Safe Schools Initiative” to help protect children at school in North East Nigeria and provide schooling to children displaced by the violence. The UK has also contributed £1.7 million to the UN’s and EU’s relief efforts.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"This is about the tragedy of the Mediterranean. I do not blame the Secretary of State for this situation, but tomorrow it is one year to the day since the House of Commons voted to support the Syrian refugee programme, and as of now there are only 90 Syrian refugees …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"My hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley), who chairs the Environmental Audit Committee, referred to the report we have produced on the sustainable development goals. Given the nature of business during the next few months, it will probably not even receive a Government reply and it certainly …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
Sustainable Development Goals

"Absolutely. Public debate, engagement and support strengthen the hand of any Government in international negotiations such as those later this year.

Last week, I was fortunate to visit Leith Walk primary school in my constituency, where the students and their teachers had been involved in the important and valuable send …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is important that businesses big and small across the world pay their workers a decent wage, yet Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament voted against the global development programme because it included a minimum wage. Is that the policy of the Government as well?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Dec 2014
International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill

"Leaving aside the general validity or otherwise of the hon. Gentleman’s argument, does he not accept that such Bills have a positive aspect as they can encourage other countries to follow suit and ensure that they have a level of spending that means that we can work together worldwide? Is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Jul 2014
Disabled People (Developing Countries)

"I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. On the question of exclusion, does he agree that a particular priority should be to ensure that children with disabilities have access to education? If children are excluded from education at an early stage of their life, they are even …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Jun 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State will be aware that HIV/AIDS remains one of the world’s greatest public health challenges. While over 10 million people from low to middle-income countries are receiving antiretroviral treatment, about another 20 million are not. What is the right hon. Lady doing about this issue, and how …..."
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Written Question
Developing Countries: Health Services
Wednesday 18th June 2014

Asked by: Mark Lazarowicz (Labour (Co-op) - Edinburgh North and Leith)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her health priorities are in discussions on the post-2015 development framework.

Answered by Justine Greening

The UK objective for post-2015 is to agree a simple, inspiring, measurable set of goals centred on eradicating extreme poverty that should finish the job that the millennium development goals started. The goal should be outcome focused, measuring reductions in preventable death and disease and giving women and girls sexual and reproductive health rights.