Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2015 to Question 1293, what funding her Department has provided to International Labour Organisation programmes in each of the last six years.
Answered by Justine Greening
Over the last six years my Department has provided £7.6 million to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for specific programmes where this represents value for money. DFID is currently funding programmes delivered by the ILO in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what representations she has made to the government of Burma to increase access for humanitarian aid to Rakhine State.
Answered by Justine Greening
DFID has provided over £18m since 2012 making it one of the largest humanitarian donors in Rakhine, providing over 126,000 displaced and conflict-affected people with water and sanitation as well as reducing malnutrition and gender based violence. The UK Government continues to make representations to both the Government of Burma and the state authorities in Rakhine regarding humanitarian access and aid.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is giving to the Rohingya people in Rakhine State.
Answered by Justine Greening
DFID has provided over £18m since 2012 making it one of the largest humanitarian donors in Rakhine, providing over 126,000 displaced and conflict-affected people with water and sanitation as well as reducing malnutrition and gender based violence. The UK Government continues to make representations to both the Government of Burma and the state authorities in Rakhine regarding humanitarian access and aid.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to increase her Department's engagement with the International Labour Organisation.
Answered by Justine Greening
The UK Government works with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on a country by country basis where it can provide effective value for money for British taxpayers. For example, DFID is working with the ILO on a programme to improve working conditions in factories in Bangladesh following the Rana Plaza disaster.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how the £1.8 billion earmarked for economic development will be allocated this financial year.
Answered by Justine Greening
The £1.8 billion earmarked for Economic Development will be allocated though the comprehensive system of project identification, development and approval used across DFID. This system makes best use of our business case process to ensure we support projects which provide best value for money whilst maximising results. We will also make full use of our new Growth Diagnostics tool to ensure that economic development spend is focused on those areas where it can have maximum impact.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of the UK's funding for Ebola has been spent (a) for each purpose, (b) in each location and (c) on each recipient.
Answered by Justine Greening
The UK Government has committed £427 million to eradicating the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, £216 million of which has been disbursed to support the response. This package of support covers the costs of UK operations in the ongoing crisis response, regional preparedness, and early recovery activities.
As part of this response the UK has supported more than half of all the beds available for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, funded over 100 burial teams, trained 4,000 frontline staff, provided three labs to test one third of all samples collected nationally and delivered over one million PPE suits and 150 vehicles. It is clear that our strategy is working and the numbers of cases have significantly reduced. This is real progress and cause for cautious optimism that we can beat this outbreak.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the value is of contracts her Department holds with (a) Adam Smith International, (b) PwC and (c) KPMG.
Answered by Justine Greening
DFID publishes full contract information on the Contracts Finder website https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answers of 19 and 22 January 2015 to Questions 220652, 220623, 221273 and 221277, how much has been spent on the Economic Development Strategy in 2014-15 to date.
Answered by Justine Greening
As of 6 January (the last date on which relevant expenditure data was produced) the total expenditure on economic development in financial year 2014/15 was £746 million.