The UK is a long-term supporter of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), and we recognise UNRWA's unique mandate from the UN General Assembly to protect and provide protection and core services to Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. We are providing £51 million to UNRWA in 2020/2021. Reports that UNRWA may not be able to pay the salaries of its staff in full are very worrying. To that end, the UK is working with UNRWA and other donors to improve UNRWA's financial viability. This includes broadening UNRWA's donor base, encouraging the full disbursement of pledges and support through multi-year funding.

The UK is proud to be a global champion for sexual and reproductive health and rights. We promote funding for quality contraception services in national budget planning, a key way to ensure the sustainability of family planning services in the long term.

We do not centrally track every country where we have had these discussions, but can confirm that we strive to support the countries we work in to have a dedicated budget line for contraception in their national strategies, through multilateral dialogue or bilateral dialogue. For example, we support 12 countries (Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, DRC, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) to provide SRHR services and increase national budgets for contraceptives through the UK's Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) programme. Our support to the Global Financing Facility helps assist in the implementation of plans and budgets for women and children's health, including contraception in 36 countries. Finally, in 69 countries our support to FP2020 helps to promote and support family planning.

Defra has regular meetings with Kew Gardens about the impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak. There are significant impacts on Kew’s operations and finances, mainly as a result of having to close the Kew and Wakehurst Place sites to the public for a period during lockdown, and a staggered return to full operations is anticipated through 2020/21.

Kew has reopened to the public under a carefully planned approach and is now able to generate visitor income as a result, although at a significantly lower level than would normally be anticipated. The operational facilities are being kept under review with a view to maximising visitor access within social distancing guidelines.

Kew has taken financial mitigation measures to offset in part the loss of income, including reducing costs, postponing investment plans and use of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under optimistic scenario planning of steady growth in visitor numbers and associated income and no second lockdown or related restrictions, Kew’s in-year operating deficit would result in a 25% reduction in total income for 2020/21, which will be funded by Kew drawing down its unrestricted reserves.

We continue to work with Kew to monitor the situation and assess any future challenges.

1) Since 2011, DFID contributed a total of £52 million core funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

2) Since 2011, DFID contributed £8.5 million non-core funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

Comparable figures beyond December 2018 are not yet available.

DFID has provided no core funding to Women and Children First UK in the years referenced. DFID provided £110,983 non-core funding to Women and Children First UK through the Global Poverty Action Fund during 2016/17. Indirect funding through sub agreements with tier one partners is not centrally held and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.

It has long been the British Government's view that Israel's presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is governed by the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, to which Israel is a state party. We repeatedly call on Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and have a regular dialogue with Israel on legal issues relating to the occupation, including settlements and the treatment of Palestinian children in military custody. We also expect economic and fiscal agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to continue to be fully implemented, including Israel's obligations under the Oslo Accords and Paris Protocol.

Department for International Development’s Official Development Assistance funding to selected multilateral institutions by (1) core and (2) non-core for 2017 and 2018 calendar years.

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.

Contributions are as follows:

*WHO operates on a biennium financing cycle. Figures above are based on WHO biennium years (16-17 and 18-19).

Contributions are split into two separate years in response to this PQ. For example, UK total core contribution to the WHO biennium of 2016 - end 2017 was approx. £57.07m but has been divided in two (£28.54m) to show our approximate contribution for 2016 and 2017.

UK core contribution also includes UK assessed contributions in years 16/17, 17/18 and 18/19.Assessed contributions are contributions that must be paid by Member states to retain membership of WHO and participation in its governance. Contributions are assessed each biennium based on each member state’s relative wealth and GDP. These contributions constitute, by their nature, core funding.

The UK non-core contribution is comprised of a number of programmes across DFID, Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) including Public Health England (PHE). Focus areas include support to Polio Eradication amongst other health areas.

Details of Her Majesty's Government (HMG) spending on international development is available online in Statistics on International Development. Please note that data is published by calendar year and not HMG financial year.

The report shows that the UNICEF received the following funding:

2018 data on non-core funding will be published later this year. Core funding for 2018 remained steady at £48m.

Details of Her Majesty's Government (HMG) spending on international development is available online in Statistics on International Development. Please note that data is published by calendar year and not HMG financial year.

The report shows that the UN Women received the following funding:

2018 data on non-core funding will be published later this year. Core funding for 2018 remained steady at £12.5m.

All funding to UNAIDS in the periods requested have been core-funding as follows:

The table below shows DFID’s financial contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the timeframe specified. All of DFID’s contributions are provided as core funding.

DFID has provided no core funding to Women and Children First UK in the years referenced.

DFID provided £110,983 non-core funding to Women and Children First UK through the Global Poverty Action Fund during 2016/17. Indirect funding through sub agreements with tier one partners is not centrally held and could only be collated at disproportionate cost.

In 2016 DFID contributed £6.45m of net ODA to the International Planned Parenthood Federation and no further funds in 2017. No non-core funding was provided in either period. Comparable figures beyond December 2017 are not yet available.

Details of Her Majesty's Government (HMG) spending on international development is available online on the Statistics on International Development website. Please note that data is published by calendar year and not HMG financial year.

The report shows that the UN Population fund received the following funding:

2018 data on non-core funding will be published later this year. Core funding for 2018 remained steady at £20m.

The UK is deeply concerned about the challenges facing over a million Palestinian refugees who rely on food assistance in Gaza. We recognise that Palestinian refugees need UNRWA to be on a more secure financial footing. To that end, the UK is working with UNRWA and other donors to support cost cutting efforts, diversify donor income, and encourage multi-year funding commitments.

The UK is a leading donor to UNRWA and I can confirm that the UK has committed to providing up to £80m to UNRWA over the next two years. However, a long-term solution requires a just, fair, agreed and realistic settlement for Palestinian refugees. Until that happens the UK remains firmly committed to supporting UNRWA and Palestinian refugees.

The Electoral Commission in its 2018 report ‘Digital campaigning - Increasing transparency for voters’, included recommendations relating to foreign donations and campaigning. The Government has discussed these with the Electoral Commission.

On 5th May 2019, the Government announced it will consult on safeguarding UK elections. The consultation may consider recommendations for increasing transparency on digital political advertising, including by third parties; closing loopholes on foreign spending in elections; preventing shell companies from sidestepping the current rules on political finance and on action to tackle foreign lobbying.

Regulation 6 of The Local Authorities (Public Health Functions and Entry to Premises by Local Healthwatch Representatives) Regulations 2013 requires local authorities to provide or make arrangements to secure the provision of open access sexual health services in their area. The precise level of spending on sexual health services is a matter for individual local authorities, reflecting local need.

The public health grant funding allocated to local authorities is ring-fenced for public health functions. It is not specifically for sexual health services.

It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties. They are required by regulations to provide services for sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and contraception.