Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department has allocated to Malaria (a) prevention and (b) treatment programmes in Kenya.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
DFID’s support for malaria prevention and treatment in Kenya is delivered through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘Global Fund’). The Global Fund has, to date, allocated more than USD $300m to malaria grants in Kenya. 10% of this (USD $30m) can be attributed to DFID based on our share of global contributions to the Global Fund.
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support internally displaced people (a) unilaterally and (b) working with the United Nations.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The UK is committed to meeting the needs of displaced populations, including internally displaced persons (IDPs). For example, we support, through core and bilateral funding, some of the key UN agencies involved in IDP response, including the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Organisation for Migration. In addition, the UK has large bilateral programmes in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen that support IDPs and the communities that host them.
Several Member States, including the UK, are also actively exploring options with the UN to mark the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement this year - including the idea of launching a UN High Level Panel on Internally Displaced Persons, which presents one way of galvanising further political and operational attention and action on IDPs.
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps her Department has taken to support the work of MapAction.
Answered by Alistair Burt
DFID will support MapAction with £615k of funding over four years (2017-2020).
We recognise the critical service MapAction provides and we remain very supportive of its work. It is one of the only Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) with the capacity to deploy a fully trained and equipped humanitarian mapping team during a humanitarian emergency.
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has had discussions with the Global Vehicle Trust on the use of the Ox flat-packed truck for the developing world for UK aid projects.
Answered by Alistair Burt
To date, DFID has had 1 meeting with Global Vehicle Trust to discuss the Ox flat-packed truck (in November 2016).
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what bilateral assistance her Department is providing to reduce malaria cases and deaths in Nigeria.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Since 2008 DFID has delivered 11 million insecticide treated nets to Nigerian families, 4.5 million malaria treatments, 5 million rapid diagnostic kits and has also trained 22,000 health workers to improve their malaria treatment skills. DFID’s new malaria programme for Nigeria is currently being tendered.
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the implications of the increase in malaria cases in Venezuela for the World Health Organisation target of malaria elimination in the Americas by 2020.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The World Health Organisation is aware of the increase in malaria cases in Venezuela. Progress towards the region meeting the goals of the Regional plan of action for malaria elimination 2016-2020 is threatened by the current levels of transmission in Venezuela, though their attainment remains possible dependent on transmission levels in other affected countries. The WHO Regional Office of the Americas issued an alert in February 2017 with recommendations for countries to strengthen national responses to increased cases
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the dates were of the most recent meetings between Ministers of her Department and their counterparts in the devolved administrations; and what the dates are of the next planned meetings.
Answered by Rory Stewart
Minister of State Rory Stewart last spoke to the Scottish Government Minister for Europe and International Development in October 2017. The next meeting is expected to take place in December.
Asked by: Stephen Kerr (Conservative - Stirling)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which companies, charities and social enterprises in Stirling constituency supply goods and services to her Department.
Answered by Rory Stewart
No companies, charities or social enterprises in the Stirling constituency have a direct contract with DFID to supply goods or services.