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Draft Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Disclosure of Information by SOCA) Order 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question. Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.
Draft Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Disclosure of Information by SOCA) Order 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question. Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.
Lead member
Baroness Neville-Jones
Answering member
Lord Brett
Department
Home Office
Type
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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Disclosure of Information by SOCA) Order 2010
Subjects
Disclosure of information; Crime prevention; Drugs; Organised crime; Misuse; Staff; Sports; Serious Organised Crime Agency; UK Anti-Doping
Date
26 July 2010
Reference
720 c83-8GC
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
House
House of Lords
Draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment No. 2) Order 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment No. 2) Order 2010. Lords debate on a motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Lead member
Baroness Neville-Jones
Answering member
Lord Brett
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on delegated legislation
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Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) No. 2) Order 2010
Subjects
Health hazards; Drugs; Internet; Misuse
Date
21 July 2010
Reference
720 c974-9
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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House of Lords
Lords debate on motion to take note of progress towards meeting the millennium development goal on universal primary education. Agreed to on question.
Lords debate on motion to take note of progress towards meeting the millennium development goal on universal primary education. Agreed to on question.
Lead member
Baroness Verma
Answering member
Lord Brett
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Department for International Development
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Debates
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Developing countries; Development aid; Women; Equality; International assistance; Higher education; Primary education; Teachers; Secondary education
Date
22 June 2010
Reference
719 c1288-308
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House of Lords chamber
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House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have given to (a) the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and (b) the United Nations Population Fund, in each year since 1997; what restrictions they placed on that funding; and what guidance they issued to those organisations in each year since 1997.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have given to (a) the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and (b) the United Nations Population Fund, in each year since 1997; what restrictions they placed on that funding; and what guidance they issued to those organisations in each year since 1997.
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
8 April 2010
It has not proved possible to respond to Lord Alton of Liverpool’s Written Question in the time available before Prorogation. However, as agreed in Oral Questions of 8 April 2010, I will send a letter to the noble Lord with a full response.
Subjects
Finance; International Planned Parenthood Federation; UN Population Fund
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
3232; 718 c459WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, including humanitarian aid allocated in response to the earthquake in Sichuan, which registered eight on the Richter scale, killed 70,000 people and left 300,000 people injured and millions homeless, DfID has spent on average £34.5 million per year over the past five years in China. In its report last March, the International Development Select Committee of the other place noted that DfID had used limited resources to maximum effect, building influential relationships and highly effective aid projects.
My Lords, including humanitarian aid allocated in response to the earthquake in Sichuan, which registered eight on the Richter scale, killed 70,000 people and left 300,000 people injured and millions homeless, DfID has spent on average £34.5 million per year over the past five years in China. In its report last March, the International Development Select Committee of the other place noted that DfID had used limited resources to maximum effect, building influential relationships and highly effective aid projects.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Morris of Bolton
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they have spent on aid to China in the past five years.
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so, I declare an interest as a trustee of UNICEF UK.
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1658
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, what we seek to do through our international development aid budget is to eradicate poverty. We must not be dazzled by Shanghai and Pudong, although Pudong is dazzling in itself. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese citizens live on less than $2 a day, and 200 million on $1.25 a day or less. The UN has estimated that in 2007 251 million Chinese people had no access to safe drinking water. We are assisting the Government of China to improve their large programmes that deliver to poor people such basic services as primary education, prevention and treatment of AIDS, HIV and TB, water and sanitation and health sector reform.
My Lords, what we seek to do through our international development aid budget is to eradicate poverty. We must not be dazzled by Shanghai and Pudong, although Pudong is dazzling in itself. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese citizens live on less than $2 a day, and 200 million on $1.25 a day or less. The UN has estimated that in 2007 251 million Chinese people had no access to safe drinking water. We are assisting the Government of China to improve their large programmes that deliver to poor people such basic services as primary education, prevention and treatment of AIDS, HIV and TB, water and sanitation and health sector reform.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Morris of Bolton
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for his Answer. I know that there was disaster relief, but a lot of aid is not disaster relief. If the Minister casts his eye around the world and sees the great and pressing need that there is, does he think it is right that we give such vast sums of money to a country that is in line to become the second largest economy in the world, and which was able to spend £20 billion entertaining us all so lavishly at the Olympics?
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1658
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
I understand, although I do not necessarily accept, all that my noble friend says. It has to be appreciated that we are assisting China in dealing with its problems relating to poverty. For example, we have brought it into contact with the National Health Service in terms of national health reform in China, particularly clinical assistance, and we have done the same in relation to agriculture. Whether we like it or not, China is a major player on the world stage and will remain so. It is not the only country in that position—India and Brazil will be too—and it is in our interests to have good, strong, ongoing relations with that country. As the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, said, this is only a very small part of our aid budget, and it will be reviewed at the next Comprehensive Spending Review in 2011. A review of our relationship with China across the whole area will take place before the CSR, and no doubt the points that my noble friend has made will be taken into account in that.
I understand, although I do not necessarily accept, all that my noble friend says. It has to be appreciated that we are assisting China in dealing with its problems relating to poverty. For example, we have brought it into contact with the National Health Service in terms of national health reform in China, particularly clinical assistance, and we have done the same in relation to agriculture. Whether we like it or not, China is a major player on the world stage and will remain so. It is not the only country in that position—India and Brazil will be too—and it is in our interests to have good, strong, ongoing relations with that country. As the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, said, this is only a very small part of our aid budget, and it will be reviewed at the next Comprehensive Spending Review in 2011. A review of our relationship with China across the whole area will take place before the CSR, and no doubt the points that my noble friend has made will be taken into account in that.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
(Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, of course the Minister is right that there are pockets of real poverty and deprivation in China—that is indisputable. However, is it right that in the past five years we have spent more than £170 million in China when the primary responsibility for dealing with that poverty should be with the Chinese Government, who are now presiding over a huge and growing economy and an enormous sovereign wealth fund, and who are such a strong competitor to our own companies doing business abroad? The noble Baroness has raised a very important question about the way in which we are prioritising our aid at the moment. I should not have thought that, given its enormous and growing wealth, China could by any standards resile from its responsibility for dealing with its own poverty.
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1659-60
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, the development of a country plan is the DfID mode of dealing with activities in a country. The last one for China was developed in 2006 and it comes to an end in 2011. As I said, a review will take place at the Comprehensive Spending Review. Also, in praising DfID’s endeavours in China, the Select Committee on International Development in another place said that there should be a continuing, smaller programme until 2015. Therefore, not everyone seems to see China in the way that some noble Lords do. It must be remembered that ultimately we are seeking to achieve the MDGs, which are about halving poverty by 2015. China has brought 476 million people out of poverty in the past 20 years, and that is assisted by what we do in that country. It is not about helping the Chinese Government; it is about helping poor Chinese people.
My Lords, the development of a country plan is the DfID mode of dealing with activities in a country. The last one for China was developed in 2006 and it comes to an end in 2011. As I said, a review will take place at the Comprehensive Spending Review. Also, in praising DfID’s endeavours in China, the Select Committee on International Development in another place said that there should be a continuing, smaller programme until 2015. Therefore, not everyone seems to see China in the way that some noble Lords do. It must be remembered that ultimately we are seeking to achieve the MDGs, which are about halving poverty by 2015. China has brought 476 million people out of poverty in the past 20 years, and that is assisted by what we do in that country. It is not about helping the Chinese Government; it is about helping poor Chinese people.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Rawlings
(Conservative)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, I am sure the Minister agrees that we all want to alleviate the stresses of poverty, wherever it may be found. Does he agree that our international development aid—that is, British taxpayers’ money—should be directed to the poorest in the world? We heard from my noble friend Lady Morris that China spent more than £20 billion on the Beijing Olympics; it spent several billions on its ambitious space programme; it has its own aid programme, too; and it is sitting on exchange reserves of more than £2 trillion. Can the Minister explain the workings of the present system that is used to calculate this aid, resulting in British taxpayers giving more than £40 million a year to China?
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1660
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
The picture that the noble Baroness paints is not one that I would look upon with any degree of comfort or sympathy. However, I take great comfort and sympathy from the latest polls, which suggest that there will not be a Conservative Government.
The picture that the noble Baroness paints is not one that I would look upon with any degree of comfort or sympathy. However, I take great comfort and sympathy from the latest polls, which suggest that there will not be a Conservative Government.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Baroness Northover
(Liberal Democrat)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, is it not one thing potentially to consider stopping aid to China and quite another to consider reducing the aid budget, given that it is a very small proportion of what we spend? Given that only 4 per cent of Tory MPs back the Government’s public policy of ring-fencing international development, how confident is the Minister that, if the Conservatives were elected, that would be delivered?
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1659
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
My Lords, I confess that I do not have the information about the amount in sterling or dollars that we have given to the organisations that the noble Lord named. I shall seek that information and write to him. Of course we raise the issue of human rights with the Government of China. There is a review of system twice a year where we discuss these things. We raise them on the basis of what we understand and of what the interested parties, the families and others, want us to raise. On several prominent occasions, including the one referred to by the noble Lord, we have raised these issues with the Government of China and sought to ensure that they will adopt a more enlightened policy on these issues in future.
My Lords, I confess that I do not have the information about the amount in sterling or dollars that we have given to the organisations that the noble Lord named. I shall seek that information and write to him. Of course we raise the issue of human rights with the Government of China. There is a review of system twice a year where we discuss these things. We raise them on the basis of what we understand and of what the interested parties, the families and others, want us to raise. On several prominent occasions, including the one referred to by the noble Lord, we have raised these issues with the Government of China and sought to ensure that they will adopt a more enlightened policy on these issues in future.
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Type
Oral answers to questions
My Lords, although many will welcome what the Minister said about the positive programmes for the relief of poverty in China, will he tell us what funding is currently being given by DfID to the UNFPA and the IPPF, which in turn give funds to the Chinese Population Association, not least in the light of the reports last week from Shandong province that newborn babies have been thrown into the river there as part of the one-child policy, and the continued imprisonment of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human rights activist, who was imprisoned for exposing the forced abortions for, and sterilisation of, women in China?
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1658-9
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were their aid programmes for Aceh in 2009–10; and what are their plans for 2010–11.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were their aid programmes for Aceh in 2009–10; and what are their plans for 2010–11.
Asked by
Lord Avebury
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
8 April 2010
It has not proved possible to respond to Lord Avebury in the time available before Prorogation.
Subjects
Development aid; Indonesia; Aceh
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
3236; 718 c458WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to provide assistance to address humanitarian issues in the camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to provide assistance to address humanitarian issues in the camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border.
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
8 April 2010
UK support is channelled through our central contributions to the European Commission and United Nations agencies. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) manages the official camps. UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Population Fund also work with the refugees within the camps or in the surrounding communities. The European Commission is providing financial support.
We have raised the plight of the Rohingyas and their status with the Government of Bangladesh, both bilaterally and in concert with EU partners. Officials from the British High Commission in Dhaka, including the High Commissioner, have visited the camps for displaced Rohingyas.
Subjects
Development aid; Refugees; Myanmar; Bangladesh; Rohingya
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
2847; 718 c447WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they have spent on aid to China in the past five years.
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so, I declare an interest as a trustee of UNICEF UK.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they have spent on aid to China in the past five years.
My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so, I declare an interest as a trustee of UNICEF UK.
Asked by
Baroness Morris of Bolton
(Conservative)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
For answer on
8 April 2010
Answered on
8 April 2010
My Lords, including humanitarian aid allocated in response to the earthquake in Sichuan, which registered eight on the Richter scale, killed 70,000 people and left 300,000 people injured and millions homeless, DfID has spent on average £34.5 million per year over the past five years in China. In its report last March, the International Development Select Committee of the other place noted that DfID had used limited resources to maximum effect, building influential relationships and highly effective aid projects.
Subjects
Development aid; China
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
718 c1658
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in preparing a programme of action for the long-term recovery and development of Haiti; and what contribution they are making towards it.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in preparing a programme of action for the long-term recovery and development of Haiti; and what contribution they are making towards it.
Asked by
Lord Judd
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
8 April 2010
International agencies in Haiti continue to provide humanitarian relief. The UK has significantly supported this, including sending a UK search and rescue team and a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship which has delivered equipment, vehicles and other food and non-food items. The UK has provided £20 million for humanitarian support and a UK team remains in Port-au-Prince to oversee delivery of this aid, which has already helped support more than 380,000 people.
In anticipation of the reconstruction of Haiti, the UK: provided a humanitarian expert for the team which has produced a draft post-disaster needs assessment; has earmarked a further £2 million for future disaster risk reduction interventions; and, through the Stabilisation Unit, is assisting the Haitian Ministry of Justice to reconstruct three prisons. Several multilateral organisations have already announced support to Haiti's reconstruction. This includes €200 million from the European Commission, $100 million from the World Bank, and $120 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. The UK's share of the reconstruction funding announced by these organisations amounts to approximately $50 million.
Subjects
Development aid; Earthquakes; Reconstruction; Haiti
Date
8 April 2010
Reference
2951; 718 c455-6WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the least developed African, Caribbean and Pacific countries have signed regional economic partnership agreements; which of those countries have not signed such agreements; and what assistance they are providing to countries in both those categories during their negotiations with the European Union.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many of the least developed African, Caribbean and Pacific countries have signed regional economic partnership agreements; which of those countries have not signed such agreements; and what assistance they are providing to countries in both those categories during their negotiations with the European Union.
Asked by
Earl of Sandwich
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 April 2010
So far, the Caribbean is the only region to have signed a regional economic partnership agreement (EPA). This region includes one least developed country (LDC), Haiti. Three other LDCs (Lesotho, Mozambique and Madagascar) have signed interim EPAs, and six more LDCs (Comoros, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda) have indicated their intention to sign interim EPAs. The following LDCs across the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region have not signed an EPA: Angola, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome e Principe and Equatorial Guinea; Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Tuvalu and Vanuatu; Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia; Malawi, Somalia and Sudan; Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
The Department for International Development's (DfID) assistance is not linked to signing of EPAs. However, DfID provides significant support through Aid for Trade to help ACP countries, as well as other developing countries, to improve trade and to help them integrate further into regional and global markets.
Subjects
EU external trade; ACP countries; Economic partnership agreements
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
3184; 718 c432WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments of the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Karel De Gucht, that "Congolese leaders are inappropriate partners and the aid given by the international community to the Democratic Republic of Congo is a total waste".
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments of the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Karel De Gucht, that "Congolese leaders are inappropriate partners and the aid given by the international community to the Democratic Republic of Congo is a total waste".
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 April 2010
The UK is one of the largest donors to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), spending £105 million in 2009-10. The UK works closely with the Government of the DRC, though we recognise the Government’s weak capacity and the high risks of our engagement. Implementation of UK programmes is managed by international organisations, including the World Bank and United Nations agencies. This helps us to ensure that UK taxpayers’ money is managed properly and put to good use.
UK aid is yielding results in the DRC. Our health programme is reaching 2 million people with basic services and has provided 3 million mosquito nets to prevent malaria, a major cause of death in DRC. We also work with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Belgian Technical Co-operation and the DRC Ministry of Energy and Water to provide safer water and sanitation facilities for some 4 million people.
We have made no specific assessment of Mr de Gucht's remarks.
Subjects
Development aid; International assistance; Politics and government; Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
3106; 718 c429WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation in the Jebel Mara region of Darfur and the estimate of Médecins du Monde that 100,000 civilians have been displaced and 400 are dead; and what steps they are taking to ensure that (a) the African Union/United...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation in the Jebel Mara region of Darfur and the estimate of Médecins du Monde that 100,000 civilians have been displaced and 400 are dead; and what steps they are taking to ensure that (a) the African Union/United...
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 April 2010
The UK Government are extremely concerned about the situation in the Jebel Mara region of Darfur. However we cannot confirm whether the estimates made by Medecins du Monde (MDM) are accurate. The Government of Sudan, the Sudanese Liberation Army rebel movement and the insecurity in the region have prevented humanitarian agencies from undertaking assessments in the areas where most civilians are thought to have fled.
The UK Government have called upon all parties to cease hostilities immediately and allow humanitarian agencies access to all areas in order to assess the needs of the affected civilian population and provide humanitarian assistance. We are encouraging and supporting the African Union/United Nations Hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID) to focus on its primary roles of improving civilian protection and security. The UN's Humanitarian Co-ordinator, Georg Charpentier, is currently in Darfur. We are awaiting his report and will continue to use all opportunities and channels available to us to press all sides to allow humanitarian access.
Subjects
Access; Death; Armed conflict; International assistance; Humanitarian aid; Peacekeeping operations; Sudan; Internally displaced people; Darfur
Date
7 April 2010
Reference
3195; 718 c443WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to address humanitarian issues in the camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they are making to the Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to address humanitarian issues in the camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border.
Asked by
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
We have raised the plight of the Rohingyas and their status with the Government of Bangladesh, both bilaterally and in concert with EU partners. Most recently my right honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State raised the conditions of the Rohingyas in the camps with the Minister for the Environment and Forests during a meeting in London on 17 March. Officials from the British high commission in Dhaka, including the high commissioner, have visited the camps for displaced Rohingyas. Officials also held discussions with representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 15 March in Dhaka.
Subjects
Refugees; Myanmar; Bangladesh; Rohingya
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
2846; 718 c381WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the attainment of the millennium development goals among Dalits and Adivasis in India.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the attainment of the millennium development goals among Dalits and Adivasis in India.
Asked by
Baroness Northover
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
The Department for International Development (DfID) has not carried out an assessment of the attainment of the millennium development goals (MDGs) among Dalits and Adivasis in India. However, DfID recognises that tackling social exclusion is critical to achieving the MDGs in India. All our programmes there have a clear focus on supporting marginalised groups such as Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims, to gain greater access to development and economic opportunities. In addition, DfID supports specific programmes that help marginalised groups to access their rights. We gather data disaggregated by social group to track our progress.
Evidence shows that our approach is making an impact: DfID support to the Government of India's Education for All programme has helped to increase the number of Dalit children in the school population. The proportion of Dalits amongst school children now exceeds their share in the overall population.
Subjects
Disadvantaged; Development aid; India; Dalits
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
3040; 718 c410-1WA
House
House of Lords
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in the reconstruction of Haiti; and what contribution they are making towards it.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made in the reconstruction of Haiti; and what contribution they are making towards it.
Asked by
Lord Judd
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Brett
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
6 April 2010
International agencies in Haiti continue to provide humanitarian relief. The UK has significantly supported this, including by sending a UK search and rescue team and a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship, which has delivered equipment, vehicles and other food and non-food items. The UK has provided £20 million for humanitarian support and a UK team remains in Port-au-Prince to oversee delivery of this aid, which has already helped to support more than 380,000 people.
In anticipation of the reconstruction of Haiti, the UK: provided a humanitarian expert for the team that has produced a draft post-disaster needs assessment; has earmarked a further £2 million for future disaster risk reduction interventions; and, through the Stabilisation Unit, is assisting the Haitian Ministry of Justice to reconstruct three prisons. Several multilateral organisations have already announced support to Haiti’s reconstruction. This includes €200 million from the European Commission, $100 million from the World Bank and $120 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. The UK’s share of the reconstruction funding announced by these organisations amounts to approximately $50 million.
Subjects
Development aid; Earthquakes; Reconstruction; Haiti
Date
6 April 2010
Reference
2950; 718 c400WA
House
House of Lords