Vicky Foxcroft: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that care (a) providers and (b) recipients will be protected from energy blackouts in winter 2022; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including care providers in the list of protected sites in the (i) Electricity...
Vicky Foxcroft: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who received a reduced personal independence payment award after being reassessed have had their original award reinstated after submitting a Mandatory Reconsideration or going to appeal.
Vicky Foxcroft: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the levels of hate crime directed toward people with disabilities, when his Department's new hate crime strategy will be published.
Vicky Foxcroft: Why was the post of Minister for Disabled People demoted? What message do we think that that sends to disabled people, who already feel like an afterthought for this Government, and will the Government reverse that decision immediately?
Leo Docherty: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. I am standing in at short notice after my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford) left her position. I wish to put on the record our gratitude for everything that she did so magnificently in the Department in recent months in her role as the Minister for Development. Her work was much admired throughout the...
Leo Docherty: On 21 September at the UN General Assembly, the UK Minister for Development, Vicky Ford MP, announced £22.8 million package assistance for Somalia to alleviate the impact of drought and address the risk of famine. This brings the UK's total support to Somalia since 1 April 2022 to £52.8 million covering humanitarian, health and nutrition support. The £22.8 million package of assistance has...
Vicky Ford: ...of all UK Government Official Development Assistance funding mechanisms including channel of delivery, bilateral multilateral breakdown, type of aid, and type of finance is listed by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committe (DAC) sector code in the "Statistics on International Development (SID): final UK aid spend 2020 - Data underlying...
Vicky Ford: ...to implement sustainable land use policies and practices. This is also a priority domestically. Following our exit from the European Union, England has begun a programme of ambitious agriculture reform. This new policy will, over a gradual transition period, phase out the area-based EU style subsidies and instead introduce a package of voluntary grants and continuous payments which reward...
Vicky Ford: The UK is a global leader in research on tackling malaria and other global diseases, with wide-ranging expertise across the UK academic, public and private sectors. For example, the world's first World Health Organisation approved malaria vaccine was developed by a British company, GlaxoSmithKline, and the new R21 malaria vaccine has been developed by Oxford University's Jenner Institute. The...
Vicky Ford: The UK is known world-wide for the emphasis we put on ensuing maximum value for money and return on investment for the Official Development Assistance we invest. The Global Fund is frequently assessed by the UK and others as providing excellent value for money, delivering health best buys and ensuring that interventions reach the most vulnerable. Further information outlining the return on...
Vicky Ford: ...since July 2022, is a temporary measure ahead of decisions about aid prioritisation. Impact assessments are ongoing. Impact assessments will not be published, due to the need to protect the space for officials to provide frank advice to ministers.
Vicky Ford: .... This has included commissioning a 'Rapid evidence assessment on the impacts of climate change on migration patterns', which has been made publicly available at https://www.gov.uk/research-for-development-outputs/rapid-ev idence-assessment-on-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-migrat ion-patterns
Vicky Ford: Information about spending to tackle global malnutrition in 2021 and 2022 will be made available through Statistics for International Development (SIDS) in Autumn 2022 and Autumn 2023 (respectively). We will continue to publish our spend information by project on DevTracker as always (updated monthly).⯠The FCDO has disbursed over £5 billion of Official Development Assistance for nutrition...
Vicky Ford: Remittances are part of a complex global network of financial flows. With our partners FCDO is working to reduce the cost of remittances to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. For example in 2019, the UK government owned organisation FSD (Financial Sector Deepening) Africa made a catalytic investment in MFS Africa, Africa's largest mobile money hub, which reduced the average cost of...
Vicky Ford: The African Development Bank (AfDB) is a long-standing and strategic partner of the UK. We welcome the Bank's target to provide 40% of its finance for climate change, and at least 50% of this for adaptation. We are currently the largest donor to the African Development Fund, which provides such finance to the poorest countries across the Continent. At COP26 we announced our Room to Run...
Vicky Ford: The allegations that surfaced around Oxfam in the DRC are serious. It is right that is given careful consideration. The FCDO will make a decision shortly regarding whether to allow Oxfam to bid for HMG funding.
Vicky Ford: Under the UK's COP Presidency 95% of the largest developed country climate finance providers made new, forward-looking climate finance commitments. The $100 billion Delivery Plan projects that the $100 billion finance goal will be met by developed countries by 2023 at the latest, with over $500 billion mobilised over the 5-year period 2021-25. In addition, at COP26 there was significant...
Vicky Ford: Under the UK's COP Presidency 95% of the largest developed country climate finance providers made new, forward-looking climate finance commitments. The $100 billion Delivery Plan projects that the $100 billion finance goal will be met by developed countries by 2023 at the latest, with over $500 billion mobilised over the 5-year period 2021-25. In addition, at COP26 there was significant...
Vicky Foxcroft: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in Lewisham, Deptford constituency.
Vicky Ford: The Global Fund's new strategy places a high priority on women and girls; 60 percent of the Global Fund's spending is specifically targeted on programmes for women and girls and about one-third of Global Fund investments directly benefits Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Our investments in the Global Fund have been critical for delivering our manifesto commitment to end the...