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Grants
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the initiatives launched by her Department since May 1997 under which specific grants are allocated, indicating in each case and for each financial year the funding provided by central Government. [109311]
Clare Short: Practically all of our programme expenditure is on grant terms.
Our voted allocation for 1999-2000 was increased in respect of the following amounts from the Central Reserve: £68 million towards DFID's Kosovo humanitarian relief, £3.25 million in respect of East Timor humanitarian relief, and a £33.3 million additional contribution to the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative.
Information on all new initiatives could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Information on DFID's spending is published in Statistics on International Development and the Departmental Report, both of which are available in the Library of the House.
Mr. Caton:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what Remploy products her Department has purchased in the last three years. [109930]
Clare Short:
The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Paul Marsden:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps she is taking to phase out the use of peat compost in gardens (a) owned and (b) tended by her Department; and if she will make a statement. [110715]
Clare Short:
Peat compost is not used in any gardens owned or tended by my Department.
Mr. Cox:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many senior civil servants from an ethnic minority background are employed in her Department; and how many of them are (a) men and (b) women. [110678]
Clare Short:
As at 1 April 1999, 55 members of the senior civil service were from ethnic minority background (1.7 per cent.).
Information on ethnic origin in the Civil Service is collected on the understanding that it will be treated on a confidential basis. To protect the privacy of individual members of staff we do not disclose data relating to fewer than five people.
My Department has fewer than five people of ethnic minority background in the SCS.
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Mr. Ben Chapman:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what plans she has to co-operate with China in the field of poverty elimination. [111255]
Clare Short:
We have a strong and growing development partnership with China, which has at its core the shared objective of poverty elimination. Our programme in China provides assistance in the key areas of health, education, economic reform and the environment. We are also looking for opportunities to work with and through other organisations, such as the World Bank, in order to strengthen the collective development effort in China. Our strategy underpinning our work in China is available in the Library.
Mr. Browne:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what measures her Department is taking to assist developing countries to comply with ILO agreements aimed at preventing child labour. [111435]
Clare Short:
The United Nations provides a framework for promoting the rights of working children through its Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and through the conventions established by International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Last year, we provided $1 million funding to the ILO's in-focus programme on child labour: the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). This money is just part of DFID's collaboration with IPEC, which extends from particular operational alliances in India, Tanzania, South East Asia (for example), to engagement in IPEC policy making in Geneva.
In 1999, the Department for International Development, in collaboration with the Department for Education and Employment, worked strenuously to help reach agreement on the new ILO convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. The convention provides an accessible target for poor countries in relation to ending the worst abuses of children's rights in the most exploitative forms of child labour (including child pornography and prostitution, drugs trafficking and slave labour).
Ms McCafferty:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which girls' and women's health projects supported by her Department have included education on female genital mutilation in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999; which non-Governmental organisations have carried out those projects and in which countries; and what was the total amount of funding for these projects in each of the years 1997, 1998 and 1999. [111294]
Clare Short
[holding answer 28 February 2000]: During 1997-99, my Department supported the following organisations and projects aimed at educating and informing communities about the harmful consequences of female genital mutilation:
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Mrs. Gillan:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the aid projects being carried out jointly with Zimbabwe, listing the amount of British aid in each case. [112115]
Country: Gambia
Project: Women's health promotion
Institution: FORWARD
Expenditure: 1997/98--£21,269, 1998/99--£91,542,
1999/2000--n/a
Region: Horn of Africa
Project: Well women media project
Institution: Christian Aid/Health Unlimited
Total commitment: £200,000
Expenditure: 1997/98--£32,957, 1998/99--£82,831,
1999/2000--n/a.
| £ million | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Support for the Privatisation Agency | 2.48 |
| 2. | Farm Community Trust | 1.6 |
| 3. | Wills and Inheritance Laws Project | 0.86 |
| 4. | Women's Civic Education Project | 0.98 |
| 5. | Rural District Council Institutional Development | 10.6 |
| 6. | National Water Resources Management Strategy | 0.5 |
| 7. | Public Service Reforms | 0.48 |
| 8. | Police Organisational Development Project | 6.44 |
| 9. | Agricultural Services and Management support | 5.75 |
| 10. | Assistance to Developing Enterprises Project | 1.4 |
| 11. | Agribusiness Entrepreneur Network and Training Development | 0.49 |
| 12. | Credit for the Informal Sector | 1.3 |
| 13. | Bikita Integrated Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project | 2.27 |
| 14. | Lupane Integrated Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project | 3.54 |
| 15. | Rural Water-Point Upgrading/Rehabilitation Project | 0.87 |
| 16. | Small Dams Rehabilitation | 1.96 |
| 17. | Bulilima-Mangwe Water Supply and Environmental Rehabilitation | 0.31 |
| 18. | Community Based Maintenance of Water Points in Binga | 0.24 |
| 19. | Small Engineering Workshops | 0.39 |
| 20. | Sexual Health Project | 9.2 |
| 21. | Social Marketing of Condoms | 2.0 |
| 22. | Adolescent reproductive health education | 0.5 |
| 23. | Civil participation in Health Services | 0.04 |
| 24. | Riders for Health | 0.28 |
| 25. | Everyone's Child (AIDS orphans) | 0.17 |
| 26. | Air Traffic Control Radar (Former ATP project) | 4.3 |
| 27. | Police Landrover supply (Former ATP project) | 8.5 |
AIDS (Africa)
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what is the Government's budget for the current financial year for AIDS and HIV measures in Africa. [112323]
Clare Short: Our estimated expenditure for work to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa for 1999-2000 is around £25 million. Exact figures are to be confirmed.
Nuclear Power Projects
Mr. Brake:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what is the Government's policy on contributing funds to nuclear power projects in developing countries; what Government funds have recently been made available to such projects and in
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respect of which projects; what plans she has for funding such projects in the future; and what recent discussions she has had with international development organisations, the World Bank and the IMF concerning the funding of nuclear power projects in developing countries. [112070]
Clare Short:
My Department's policy is not to contribute funds to nuclear power projects in developing counties with the exception of help with safety and training where there is a genuine developmental objective. Under the previous Administration, a small nuclear safety project was committed for China. This project is due to be completed in March 2000. I have had no recent discussions with international development organisations, the World Bank and the IMF concerning the funding of nuclear power projects in developing countries.
Mr. Portillo:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much money has been spent to date by her Department and by bodies funded by her Department in connection with the National Changeover Plan; on what headings this money has been spent; and how much her Department plans to spend on implementing the plan over the next 12 months. [112137]
Mr. Foulkes:
To date, we have spent £61,000 in connection with the Euro Changeover Plan. This was in respect of a scoping study carried out by external consultants on the implications of Economic and Monetary Union for the Department as a whole.
We do not anticipate any further external expenditure in the next 12 months.
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