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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Wednesday Volume 641 23 May 2018 No. 144 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Wednesday 23 May 2018 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2018 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 819 23 MAY 2018 820 context. Does she agree that microfinance is an incredibly House of Commons important way of developing women in such areas? What more will the Department do to enhance, prolong Wednesday 23 May 2018 and enlarge the use of microfinance in agriculture in developing countries? The House met at half-past Eleven o’clock Penny Mordaunt: DFID has a proud tradition as a PRAYERS leader in initiatives that empower women, including economically. Microfinance is critical to that. In most [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] countries where we have a presence, we are running such a programme specifically for women. BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS Chris Law (Dundee West) (SNP): ActionAid has ELECTORAL COMMISSION calculated that women in developing countries could be The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported almost £7 trillion better off if their pay and access to to the House, That the Address of 29 March, praying paid work were equal to that of men. Will the Secretary that Her Majesty will appoint Sarah Chambers as an of State make a commitment that, when establishing Electoral Commissioner with effect from 31 March 2018 such agreements around the world, the UK will demonstrate for the period ending 30 March 2022, was presented to its commitment to women’s rights and gender equality Her Majesty, who was graciously pleased to comply by ensuring that new co-operatives go further than they with the request. have before in protecting and upholding women’s rights? Penny Mordaunt: I will commit to do just that. We Oral Answers to Questions have a big opportunity with the forthcoming G7 Development Ministers’ meeting next week in Canada. Canada has done a huge amount on this agenda, and INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT the issues of which the hon. Gentleman speaks will feature heavily in our discussions. The Secretary of State was asked— Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con): Does the Secretary of Co-operatives State agree that women’s co-operatives have an important role to playin tackling poverty? I encourage her Department 1. Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op): to do much more in this area. What steps her Department is taking to increase its support for the development of co-operatives throughout the world. [905504] Penny Mordaunt: I congratulate my hon. Friend on his election to the Select Committee and wish him well The Secretary of State for International Development in that role. He is absolutely right that unless we enable (Penny Mordaunt): The Department for International women to reach their full potential, nations never will. Development has supported co-operatives across many sectors and is increasing support to small-scale farmers Safeguarding to help them to commercialise. For example, the ÉLAN programme is working with women’s co-ops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to increase quality, 2. Luke Hall (Thornbury and Yate) (Con): What improve marketing and establish systems for full traceability steps she is taking to improve safeguarding in the of product. international development sector. [905505] Alex Norris: The co-operative model of ownership The Secretary of State for International Development has distinct advantages for sustainable international (Penny Mordaunt): We have introduced new safeguarding development. Regrettably, in 2011 the Government cut standards for all DFID programmes. I have requested the £5 million fund for co-operative development. Will and received assurances from our partners on their the Secretary of State commit to investigating the desirability safeguarding policies and procedures. Internationally, of reinstating that fund, and match the ambition of we are leading the charge to raise standards. Opposition Members by ensuring that the Department is looking properly at alternative models of ownership? Luke Hall: I thank the Secretary of State for that answer. Will she update the House on her Department’s Penny Mordaunt: I agree with the hon. Gentleman plans for the international safeguarding conference that that co-operatives can be a hugely powerful and empowering is being held later this year? model for delivering economic development. I do not think we should have just a small £5 million fund. We should be levering all the investment we have from Penny Mordaunt: The conference will be held on DFID into those organisations. Through a new initiative, 18 October in London and will involve survivors of “GREAT for Partnership”, we hope to build connections abuse, aid beneficiaries, multilateral organisations and with organisations that can do just that. others. Much work is being done globally to develop vetting procedures and new human resources practices James Gray (North Wiltshire) (Con): The Secretary and to harmonise standards and policies across the of State mentioned in passing the role of women in board. At the conference, we will secure sector-wide developing countries, particularly in the agricultural action to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation. 821 Oral Answers 23 MAY 2018 Oral Answers 822 Stephen Twigg (Liverpool, West Derby) (Lab/Co-op): We have to strengthen the system across the board. We I welcome the Secretary of State’s international leadership are leading the charge and other donors are following on this issue. What conversations has she had with our lead. I hope that by the end of the year we will have United Nations institutions, where there are serious vetting procedures, benchmarking and the harmonisation concerns about potential sexual exploitation both by of policies to deter predatory individuals from the aid peacekeepers and by civilian staff? sector. Penny Mordaunt: The hon. Gentleman will know that Rohingya Refugees we have had extensive discussions with all UN agencies and partners, as well as core UN bodies. They are 3. Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP): making progress. The safeguarding conference will be What steps her Department is taking to support vulnerable fundamental in consolidating that progress, but we are children in Rohingya refugee camps during the monsoon also talking with our counterparts in the Ministry of season. [905506] Defence to look at what we can do to help to build capacity in peacekeeping troops before they deploy. 9. Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): What Mrs Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire) (Con): The steps her Department is taking to protect Rohingya International Development Committee is looking at refugees in Bangladesh from the effects of the monsoon this very issue. How can my right hon. Friend be season. [905512] absolutely certain that charities are telling her the truth about what has happened within their organisations, 13. Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown) (Lab/ and does she believe that an international register of Co-op): What steps her Department is taking to protect people working in those bodies would be a good idea? Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from the effects of the monsoon season. [905516] Penny Mordaunt: Absolutely.As well as the assurances we have sought and our oversight of projects and The Minister for the Middle East (Alistair Burt): Up programmes we are contributing to on the ground, to 200,000 Rohingya are living in areas at risk of flooding there will be other tell-tale signs. For example, if and collapse during the rainy season. We are working organisations are not reporting incidents or allegations, with the Bangladesh Government and humanitarian that is a red light to me that there is something wrong partners on preparedness, including improved shelters, within those organisations. We are still monitoring this water and sanitation, vaccination campaigns and pre- situation. We are leading an international donor group positioning of emergency supplies. that is looking at setting up the precise procedures to which my hon. Friend refers. Carol Monaghan: Last August, Myanmar soldiers systematically brutalised and raped young Rohingya Kate Osamor (Edmonton) (Lab/Co-op): Before agreeing women. Nine months on, and in the middle of the with Oxfam and Save the Children that they would monsoon season, many of those young girls are now withdraw from Government funding, did the Department giving birth to babies conceived as a result of rape. As carry out an assessment on the impact that that would these girls are often shunned by their communities, have? Will the Secretary of State tell the House exactly what support is the UK Government providing to these how many jobs will be affected and how many vulnerable vulnerable girls and their babies? people will lose access to life-saving aid? Penny Mordaunt: My sole concern in making these Alistair Burt: The hon. Lady is right to raise this decisions is the impact on the beneficiaries. Unlike issue. Some 16,000 women may be caught up in this. We other nations, I will not take decisions that impact have deployed a specialist maternity worker to be there. negatively on beneficiaries. We are very conscious that In addition, we are working with our partners to support both the organisations to which the hon. Lady refers Rohingya women who were raped and are pregnant. mayhave difficulty in maintaining employment contracts—I The deployment includes training of medical specialists, suspect most of those people will transfer to other psycho-social support, clinical management of rape organisations—but how they maintain their staffing and emergency obstetric care. This is all being provided budgets is not the basis on which I am going to take despite the difficulty of the monsoons and other decisions. circumstances. Kate Osamor: I thank the Secretary of State for her Afzal Khan: Given the greatly increased risk of answer, but we still do not know what assessments were waterborne diseases facing the Rohingya during the carried out and whether they will be made public.
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