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Written Question
Montserrat: Health Services
Friday 9th February 2024

Asked by: Andrew Rosindell (Conservative - Romford)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help improve healthcare provision on Montserrat.

Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The FCDO is supporting Montserrat to improve healthcare on the island through its £40 million Capital Investment Programme for Resilient Economic Growth over 6 years from 2019 to 2025, which supports strategic infrastructure development, including building a new hospital. Furthermore, the FCDO have funded the procurement of a CT scanner, 3D mammography unit, oxygen generator and a neonatal incubator. The UK Government funded a £1.8 million COVID-19 programme which supplied vaccines, PPE, test kits, specialist healthcare staff, training programmes, in addition to a new laboratory with the ability to test for multiple viruses not just those pandemic-related. The FCDO also support the UK Health Security Agency programme of work to improve local capacity public health.

Select Committee
SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), and WWF UK

Oral Evidence Feb. 05 2024

Inquiry: The UK and the Antarctic Environment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: Montserrat and Antarctica have nothing whatsoever in common, do they, apart from the fact they are

Select Committee
Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Bristol, and Alfred Wegener Institute

Oral Evidence Feb. 05 2024

Inquiry: The UK and the Antarctic Environment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research

Found: Montserrat and Antarctica have nothing whatsoever in common, do they, apart from the fact they are

Select Committee
Hon Joseph E. Farrell, Premier of Montserrat, and Hon Teslyn Barkman MLA (Member of the Falkland Island Legislative Assembly)

Oral Evidence Jan. 29 2024

Inquiry: The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Procedure Committee

Found: Farrell, Premier of Montserrat, and Hon Teslyn Barkman MLA (Member of the Falkland Island Legislative

Select Committee
Hon Fabian Picardo KC MP, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, and Hon Dr Joseph Garcia GMC MP, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar

Oral Evidence Jan. 29 2024

Inquiry: The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution
Inquiry Status: Open
Committee: Procedure Committee

Found: Farrell, Premier of Montserrat.

Select Committee
Second Special Report - Countries at crossroads: UK engagement in Central Asia: Government Response to the Committee’s Tenth Report of Session 2022–23

Special Report Jan. 25 2024

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Montserrat, the Falkland Islands, St Helena, and Pitcairn have confirmed that they are continuing to

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
HM Passport Office

Jan. 24 2024

Source Page: Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy: caseworker guidance
Document: Parental responsibility: birth parents, adoption and surrogacy (PDF)

Found: Turkey Denmark , Faroe Islands and Greenland Mongolia Dominican Republic Montenegro U Montserrat

Select Committee
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Oral Evidence Jan. 23 2024

Inquiry: UK Small Island Developing States Strategy
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: We are very concerned at what is happening in Montserrat and are on the case.

Westminster Hall
Girlguiding UK: British Overseas Territories - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat - Speech Link

Deposited Papers
Cabinet Office

Jan. 17 2024

Source Page: I. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: Annual report 2022/23. Incl. annexes. 32p. II. Letter dated 11/01/2024 from Baroness Neville-Rolfe to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding a document for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: Conflict.pdf (PDF)

Found: Territory • British Virgin British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Falkland Islands • Gibraltar • Montserrat