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International Health Partnership

I am grateful to the Minister, who has been generous in giving way. My party has pledged not to cut the staff at DFID headquarters any more, because her Department is unique among Departments in having, rightly, an expanded budget. If there are not the staff at headquarters to be able to deliver that expanded budget, things will start to go awry. It will mean fewer bilateral programmes and more multilateral programmes. It would be a pity if the reputation that DFID has worldwide were tarnished because we were unable to deliver the programmes that the Department has set out to deliver.