Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure value for money of UK aid through strengthened monitoring.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
I am very clear that every pound of UK aid should go on saving and improving the lives of the poorest people in the world. All DFID projects are measured against a robust monitoring framework to ensure they remain cost effective. DFID also supports other aid spending departments, who are responsible for ensuring value for money and effective monitoring of their own aid spend.Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department is making in widening the range of NGOs that support religious minorities in the Middle East.
Answered by Rory Stewart
All our support in the Middle East is based on an assessment of need to ensure that vulnerable people are not discriminated against on any grounds, including religion. In the Middle East our support is focused on partners who are operating at significant scale and who have a track record of delivering aid at scale in complex situations. We do not directly fund small organisations such as churches.
Faith-based organisations are eligible to access funding mechanisms to which DFID is a major contributor, such as the Humanitarian Pooled Funds in Iraq and Syria, and we encourage them to do so. We invite a range of NGOs, including Christian organisations, to meet us regularly at DFID to exchange views and discuss the situation in the region.
Asked by: Michael Tomlinson (Conservative - Mid Dorset and North Poole)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to fund churches running social action programmes in the Middle East.
Answered by Rory Stewart
All our support in the Middle East is based on an assessment of need to ensure that vulnerable people are not discriminated against on any grounds, including religion. In the Middle East our support is focused on partners who are operating at significant scale and who have a track record of delivering aid at scale in complex situations. We do not directly fund small organisations such as churches.
Faith-based organisations are eligible to access funding mechanisms to which DFID is a major contributor, such as the Humanitarian Pooled Funds in Iraq and Syria, and we encourage them to do so. We invite a range of NGOs, including Christian organisations, to meet us regularly at DFID to exchange views and discuss the situation in the region.