Written Question
Tuesday 24th April 2018
Asked by:
Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will introduce the use of the Dun and Bradsheet human trafficking risk index when allocating funding.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Tackling modern slavery is a priority for DFID, and we are expanding our work in developing countries through £40 million of new programming that will reach at least 500,000 people at risk of slavery.
Businesses have a key role to play in tackling modern slavery, and though we are not currently using the Dun & Bradstreet Index, we are supportive of approaches like these which help business assess risk in their supply chains.
Through our Responsible, Accountable, and Transparent Enterprises Programme, we are working with organisations including the Ethical Trading Initiative, the World Benchmarking Alliance, and Humanity United to develop responsible business approaches.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Government should be congratulated on being the second biggest donor in the area—second only to the United States. We can look after more people closer to home than we can in this country. What is the Secretary of State doing to encourage other European countries to match our level …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 17th January 2017
Asked by:
Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)
Question
to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department's aid budget is given to third parties to distribute.
Answered by Rory Stewart
DFID spends aid through a range of delivery partners. Delivery partners are selected based on a value for money assessment of their capacity to deliver objectives in the country DFID is working in.
Overall, for 2015, approximately 36% of DFID’s aid was delivered through multilateral organisations, 64% was delivered bilaterally.
Details of 2015 spend on all UK official aid is published in the Statistics on International Development, including the delivery channels used in every country in which we work.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris), who has piloted through such a successful Bill. I would like to pick up, in general terms, on what the Minister for Life …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"I am going back many years. [Interruption.] I am going to develop that point. I am not blaming anyone in particular other than the Home Office—of course, everyone will agree with that—and I am not really blaming the Home Office. It was just that people did not understand …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"My hon. Friend has made a good point. Years ago, before I came to this place, I ran a travel business which had an operation in Florida, and I would quite often fly over there with new members of staff who were young girls. So there was a middle-aged man …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"I am very grateful for the Minister’s intervention, and I am very glad that we have this particular Minister at the Dispatch Box, because I know he has worked with Anthony Steen and John Randall on this issue, and I greatly appreciate that.
The Government have done exceptionally well. John …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"There was a big row about the POPPY project and I am broad-brush about this: I think the Salvation Army operation has been a huge success, and I am absolutely convinced that no other country in Europe looks after rescued adult victims of human trafficking better than ours, and we …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 29 Jan 2016
Child Victims of Human Trafficking (Central Government Responsibility) Bill
"My hon. Friend is quite right that this is not, as I have portrayed it, just a European Union issue. I wanted to use that example because I did not want to get into the arguments about immigration and migration control. People from the EU have the right to be …..."Peter Bone - View Speech
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