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Adjournment debate on the reconstruction of Yugoslavia

Adjournment debate on the reconstruction of Yugoslavia.

Lead member

Tam Dalyell

Answering member

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

Department

Department for International Development

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

1 November 1999

Reference

337 c50-78

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding is available to encourage cultural exchanges with students and government officials from Bosnia-Herzegovina; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

Paul Marsden (Labour)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 July 1999

Reference

91189; 335 c100-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to paragraph 8.18 of the White Paper, Smoking Kills, what steps have been taken, and what funding has been provided, by her Department to help developing countries reduce tobacco dependence and help farmers dependent on tobacco crops to diversify.

Asked by

Gary Streeter (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 July 1999

Reference

91083; 335 c102W

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans she has to increase funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. - Inc figures.

Asked by

John Austin (Labour)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 July 1999

Reference

90343; 335 c23W

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much money she has allocated in the last year for which figures are available for Third World countries to combat the HIV problem. - Inc figs.

Asked by

Keith Vaz (Labour)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 1999

Reference

328 c190W; 78126

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

Statement on what action the Government has taken since his oral statement in the adjournment debate on 1st July 315 c324-30 to protect coral reefs. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Tam Dalyell (Labour)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 January 1999

For answer on

25 January 1999

Answered on

25 January 1999

Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what action the Government have taken since his oral statement in the adjournment debate on 1 July 1998, Official Report, columns 324-30, to protect coral reefs. [65477] Mr. Foulkes: I have been asked to reply. Since the adjournment debate on 1 July, we have maintained our effort to conserve coral reefs, monitor their status and help to achieve their sustainable use. The Department for International Development (DFID) has further extended its support for the creation of a South Asia Regional Coral Reef Monitoring Network in Sri Lanka, Maldives and India, being a contribution to the global network sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The programme has trained national managers to monitor the biophysical status of reef resources and the use of these resources by dependent coastal communities. DFID has also supported their participation in regional and international planning processes. An independent review in September 1998 concluded that the DFID/IOC programme has laid a very solid foundation for future development of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. A UK/Caribbean Regional Workshop in Jamaica during October 1998, funded by FCO and DFID, attracted representatives from 22 Caribbean States to consider the conservation status of marine biodiversity in the Caribbean including threats to the coral reefs of the region. The results of this Caribbean meeting were reported to the Second London Oceans Workshop sponsored by Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), attended by delegations from 40 countries, at which the keynote address by the Deputy Prime Minister focused on the central role of coral reefs as indicators of the health of the oceans, and on the need to take action to protect both reefs and other sensitive marine ecosystems. During December 1998, DFID approved funding of £0.6 million to extend for a further three year period the programme implemented by the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) studying the social, economic and environmental benefits which have arisen from the protection of coral reefs in Jamaica and in British Virgin Islands. DFID has also approved new support for the Coastal Resources Management Project providing advice to the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands for the protection and management of a marine protected area including some spectacular coral reefs, and the development of local capacity and infrastructure to ensure that this is a long sustained process. The UK's ratification of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance has been extended to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and this came into force on 8 January 1999. BIOT is now preparing to put forward for listing as a Ramsar site an area of the Chagos Archipelago which includes a number of globally outstanding coral reefs.

Date

25 January 1999

Reference

65477; 324 c22-3W

House

House of Commons

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