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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much (a) financial, (b) material, (c) personnel and (d) other aid the UK Government (i) pledged, (ii) committed and (iii) delivered to the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the volcanic eruptions in 2002. [15344]
Hilary Benn: Following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo in January 2002, the UK disbursed £1 million immediately to agencies dealing with the disaster, and indicated its preparedness to offer more. Our bilateral financial support in response to the disaster eventually totalled £1.3 million, split as follows:
At the time of the eruptions DFID also sent two humanitarian advisers to the area to assess the situation and co-ordinate our response.
Since then, we have followed the meetings co-ordinating scientific monitoring of the volcano and development of early warning systems (which have been in place since 2004), and those assessing the humanitarian and environmental risks, including contingency planning. We currently have a humanitarian adviser visiting Goma and its vicinity, part of whose visit will be to get an update on humanitarian contingency planning and how we might help further.
Departmental Websites
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will list the websites that come under his Department's responsibility; what the cost was of each in the last year for which figures are available; and how many visitors there were to each site in that year. [15901]
Mr. Thomas: DFID's websites and costs for the financial year 2004–05 are as follows:
www.dfid.gov.uk—main external site, plus DFID India (www.dfidindia.org) and DFID Bangladesh (www.dfidbangladesh.org)
El Salvador
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much (a) financial, (b) material, (c) personnel and (d) other aid the UK Government (i) pledged, (ii) committed and (iii) delivered to El Salvador after the earthquake in 2001. [15554]
Mr. Thomas:
DFID provided a total of £1,327,900 financial aid to El Salvador in response to the first earthquake in January 2001. This was followed by £302,632 financial aid in response to humanitarian need in the wake of the second earthquake in February 2001. The amount dispersed was the same as that pledged and committed. DFID did not provide any material or personnel support. Since 2001 the UK Government have delivered about £1,056,440 in other bilateral aid to El Salvador.
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Equality and Diversity
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much the Department has spent promoting equality and diversity in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [14662]
Mr. Thomas: DFID is fully committed to the civil service equality and diversity agenda and has policies and processes in place to ensure that there is no unfair discrimination on any grounds.
DFID's diversity strategy provides the broad framework under which our diversity and equality work is promoted and delivered across the organisation. In order to meet the specific challenges of this agenda, we have undertaken a comprehensive range of activities as detailed in the following tables. Monetary values have been assigned to each of these key activities for each of the last five financial years. Staffing costs have been derived using estimates of the time that have been allocated by DFID staff to equality and diversity issues.
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(22)Staffing costs have been calculated using estimates of the time that has been allocated to the equality and diversity agendas by DFID staff, using average staff cost data by grade.
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